“Yes, sir.”
“Good. It seems that Stokesley and Raikes have run away. They were neither at chapel nor at supper. Some of their things are missing. Now, you’re the only other boy in their dormitory. Do you know anything at all about this?”
“No, sir.”
“Nothing?”
“No, sir.”
“They said nothing at all to you about this going?”
“No, sir.”
“Gave you no idea that they were thinking of it?”
“No, sir.”
Thompson paused, looked out of the window, walked up and down the room a little, then said: