"Well, you've got one now," said Tozer, "and it will teach you responsibility, Bobby; it will teach you responsibility."

"Hang responsibility!"

"I know; that's what your uncle has often said, no doubt. Responsibility is the only thing that steadies men, and the sense of it is the grandfather of all the other decent senses. You'll be a much better man for this, Bobby, or my name is not Tozer."

"I wish it were Ravenshaw," said Bobby. Then remembrance made him pause.

"I ought to tell you——" said he, then he stopped.

"Well?" said Tozer.

"I promised you to stop—um—fooling after girls."

"That means, I expect, that you have been doing it."

"Not exactly, and yet——"

"Go on."