“Don’t call me a coward again then,” said Walter to him as he turned away.
“I say, Evson, you’re a regular brick, a regular stunner,” said young Kenrick, delighted, as he showed Walter the way to the Hall where the boys had tea. “That fellow Jones is no end of a bully, and he won’t be quite so big in future. You’ve taken him down a great many pegs.”
“I say, Kenrick,” shouted Henderson after them, “I bet you five to one I know what you’re saying to the new fellow.”
“I bet you don’t,” said Kenrick, laughing.
“You’re saying—it’s a quotation, you know, but never mind—you’re saying to him, ‘A sudden thought strikes me: let’s swear an eternal friendship.’”
“Then you’re quite out,” answered Kenrick. “I was saying come and sit next me at tea.”
“And go shares in jam,” added Henderson: “exactly what I said, only in other words.”