"No. You look like a cricket. Are you always so silent? Don't you ever chirp?"
"Me, silent? I've given the Wallys the blow of their lives. They think I'm sick, I've been so good on this rotten cruise."
"What caused the reform—good company?"
"No. I'm getting ready to break it to them that I may not be taken back at that school. I got into the devil of a row."
"Did you? And they expelled you?"
"Suspended me until they decide. That's why I had to come on this jolly party."
"You don't like it?"
"Of course I don't like it. How'd I know whether you ever would wake up or not?"
"Did you want me to wake up?" he asked curiously.
"But, oui, aye, yah, yes, of course! You don't suppose I want to play with fat old Brendon, do you? Wally is a fearful bore, so there's only you."