"I want to apologise to you for our meeting the other day," he said stiffly.
Madge stared, and Tommy turned to the pale boy.
"And to you," he said.
The pale boy looked a little puzzled, but grinned.
"That's all right," he said. "I could see—"
"Excuse me, I haven't quite finished"—and the pale boy stopped, with his mouth open.
"I think you had better go home, Madge."
"Why—Tommy?"
Tommy looked down.