"I don't care. They won't think any the worse of me, whatever they do."
"Go away, I tell you. Or, if you don't, I shall have to, and I'm very comfortable here."
"I shan't. And if you try to escape me I'll follow you."
"Oh, why can't you go away?" I grumbled with something like a sob. "Go away. Go away."
But Doe persisted. In full view of the prefects he chatted gaily to me. Once, as Radley passed, he slipped his arm into mine. And when the master was out of hearing he asked:
"I s'pose Radley knows you're in Coventry?"
"Of course. Everybody does."
"Do you think he saw I had my arm in yours?"
"I should think so. You made it pretty obvious."
"I wonder what he thought."