“Yes, rather. I wonder would anyone guess we’d been fighting?”
“I shouldn’t wonder if they did. Would they be wild?”
“Well, they told me to behave nicely to you—especially at first.”
“They told me that, too, at home.”
They grinned at each other, comprehendingly.
“Oh, well,” said Billy. “Girls an’ grown-ups can’t possibly understand everything about boys!”
“ ‘I say, Rex, I’m awful sorry. I was a pig.’ ‘Well, so was I,’ came in muffled tones.”
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CHAPTER IX
THE PROGRAMME
‟ARE you young people aware,” asked Mr. Weston severely, “that it is now up to you to map out the whole duty of pupil-teachers?”