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"Pish," was his only answer, but when he got to Owen's rooms I should think he must have known that I had spoken the truth. I got leave from the Subby to stay with Owen during the night, but I cannot say that I was a successful nurse.
"I have only got to work and keep quiet, and the Subby will think I am as like a machine as he is." "And you have made up your mind to work?" "I mean to do a reasonable amount," I replied cautiously. "It is most awfully difficult to work. I have done precious little, and I went fast asleep at a lecture the other morning." "What was it about?" "Logic." "Oh, that's nothing," I assured him.
Finally, the Subby and The Bradder appeared, and gave orders that the donkey should leave the college; so as soon as Dennison had dismounted, his steed was handed over to its owner, who was waiting in the street.
I expressed my opinion of Adamson and went back to college, for I ought not to have been out after nine o'clock, because my gating would not finish. But I must say that when the Subby sent for me, and I explained what had happened, he congratulated me on getting my blue, and said that under such exceptional circumstances he would excuse my forgetfulness.
"It's like this," I began, "Ward went to the Subby and said " But Ward burst in with, "By Jove, that is about the tenth time that man Foster has fallen on the ball, and now I believe he's hurt." For quite two minutes Fred lay on the ground, and I forgot all about Dennison and the exasperating mood I was in.
"And when Lambert and Webb began to shout the back quad down, I came out to see what had happened. What were you talking to the Subby about?" "Our arms got interlocked," I replied, as we walked over to our staircase. "The fact is the Subby ought to go to bed in decent time." "He could hardly be expected to sleep with a wine going on in the rooms below him." "I forgot all about that."
I asked him, and I added, "it isn't as if you could do anybody else any good," for it is at first very perplexing to find a man doing exactly the reverse of what you expect. "I have told you why I did it, I should have felt so confoundedly mean if I hadn't. But while I was with the Subby I wish I had known that he had nailed you as well, because I might have told him that you hate drinking.
I enjoyed that meal very much, the Subby only wanted knowing a little and then he became quite a good sort, and I think he was amused at a fresher calmly asking himself to luncheon with him, but it ought to have shown that I had a certain amount of confidence in him, for even I could not have asked myself to a meal with Mr. Edwardes.
He was full of apologies and hopes that the Subby had not recognized me. "He told me that he sleeps so badly, that he often gets up in the middle of the night and takes a walk," he said, without the slightest regard for truth. "Then there is no reason why I shouldn't take a run if I like," I replied. "But you were shouting," he said, as if he wished I had not been.
The only window I smashed was not entirely my fault, for Ward ducked his head just as a tennis-ball was going to hit it; the Subby, however, who was trying to instil logic into a lot of pass "mods" men, was annoyed by broken glass falling into his lecture-room.
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