So I’ll take my hat and go.

“School is dismissed,” said the schoolmaster, “I have no time to-day to hear lessons.”

Guy went down a narrow lane, or passage, it seemed, as it was carpeted; he saw a little boy crying.

“What’s the matter?” said Guy.

“I have no time to tell you,” he said.

“Oh, rubbish,” said Guy; “make time.”

The boy looked up in surprise.

“Why that is what they used to say to me before I came down here. But I am not clever, and I cannot make anything, not even time.”

Guy was disgusted.