“Then you mean to say you won’t row again?” asked Fairbairn.
“No, if it comes to that,” said Bloomfield.
“Why,” said Game, “the same thing might happen again.”
“If you’d looked to your lines before you started,” said Fairbairn, hotly, “it wouldn’t have happened.”
“We shall certainly make a point of looking at them again when next we row you,” said Ashley, with a sneer.
Fairbairn seemed inclined to retort, but a look from Riddell deterred him.
“Then you won’t row again?” he repeated once more.
“No.”
“Then we claim to-day’s race,” said Fairbairn.
“You can claim what you like,” said Game.