"Do you think I could go down to Aldershot, sir?" he asked.
Mr Spence looked surprised.
"Go down? You mean—? Do you want to watch the competition? Really, I don't know if the headmaster—"
"I mean, can I box?"
Mr Spence's look of surprise became more marked.
"Box?" he said. "But surely—I didn't know you were a boxer, Sheen."
"I've only taken it up lately."
"But you didn't enter for the House Competitions, did you? What weight are you?"
"Just under ten stone."
"A light-weight. Why, Linton boxed for your house in the Light-Weights surely?"