“I suppose it is a special indignity to a senior boy, captain of his house, to be paraded for extra drill with a lot of small boys, eh, Dr England?”
“I should consider it so,” said the doctor.
“I did not feel myself called upon to make any difference,” said Mr Jarman.
“Apparently not. And on account of this affair, you say you expected Tempest would attempt to defy you last night?”
Mr Jarman bit his lips and did not reply.
Tempest resumed his questions with a coolness that surprised us.
“You were smoking, I think, Mr Jarman?”
“What if I was?”
“Nothing, only I wanted the magistrate to know it. And you locked me into the gymnasium for half an hour till I kicked myself out. I say you had no right to do that. What did you do while I was inside?”
“I walked up and down.”