“Well, if this is your way of finding out about your Latin, you know just as much up-stairs as down here. Be off; and mind I have the lines before dinner to-morrow.”
The two champions retired disconcerted, leaving the captain to deal with the arch offenders.
“First of all,” said he, “what business have you in this study?”
“Oh, Railsford knows we’re here; we told him, and he didn’t object.”
“Don’t you know you ought to come to the prefects about it?”
Oddly enough, both the boys had completely forgotten.
“Besides,” explained Dig, “as Railsford and Herapath are sort of brother-in-laws, you know, we thought it was all right.”
The reason did not appear very obvious; but the information was interesting.
“Oh, that’s it, is it?” asked the captain. “What relation is he to you?”
“He’s spoons on my sister Daisy.”