“Then let him know he is to come here at four o’clock, and you, Silk, come too at that hour.”
Silk, who had evidently screwed himself up for the present interview, looked disappointed.
“I should like just to say, sir—” began he, with a glance at Riddell.
But the doctor interrupted.
“Not now, Silk. Go to your class now, and come here at four o’clock.”
“But it’s not about—”
“Do you hear me, sir?” said the doctor, sternly.
Silk went.
The captain was about to follow his example, when it occurred to him he might not have so favourable an opportunity again that day for acting on Bloomfield’s advice respecting Wyndham.
“Can you spare a few minutes, sir?” said he, turning back.