“Yes, please, sir. You said you were expecting me, Mr Jarman. What made you do that?”
“I expected, from my knowledge of your conduct, that you would come and try and get the blazer.”
“When have I disobeyed you before?”
“You know as well as I do, Tempest.”
“Yes, but I don’t,” said the magistrate. “Answer the question.”
Mr Jarman thereupon gave his version of the affair at Camp Hill Bottom.
“The offence being,” said the magistrate, “that the boys, Tempest among them, were out, on the afternoon of a holiday, half an hour from the school, with only a one quarter of an hour to get back. You punished the boys, I understand.”
“Yes.”
“And Tempest took his punishment with the rest.”
“Yes.”