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"The man has absolutely no sense of humour can't see when he's being rotted. Well it was like this Hullo! We're all out I shall have to be going out to field again, I suppose, dash it! I'll tell you when I see you again." "I shall count the minutes," said Psmith. Mike stretched himself; the sun was very soothing after his two hours in the detention-room; he felt disinclined for exertion.
Nothing you can do or say will swerve us from what we judge to be the interests of justice." "Let me alone for a little while," answered Grell dully; "I want to think." They sent him back to the detention-room where, with a constable seated opposite to him, he was to spend the night. Foyle rested one arm on the mantelpiece and kicked the fire viciously into a blaze.
Then there was the pulling-down and fixing-up of partitions, the removal of every single window for replacement by Hopper sashes, the fitting-in of bathrooms, lavatories, ward-kitchens, sink-rooms, dispensary, cookhouse, operating-theatre, pathological laboratory, linen-store, steward's store, clothing-store, detention-room, administration offices, X-ray department ... all these in a building which, spacious and handsome outwardly, was, as to its interior, a characteristic maze in the Scottish baronial style of architecture beloved by mid-Victorian philanthropists.
For the character itself Walter cared little, knowing well that it was founded throughout on misapprehension; but his father's letter stirred the very depths of his heart, and made them turbid with passion and sorrow. He received it at dinner-time, and read it as he went across the court to the detention-room, of which he was now so frequent an occupant.
"Ah! if you could prove that!" "Easy enough. Have her searched, here at once, in the station. There is a female searcher attached to the detention-room." "It is a strong measure. She is a lady." "Ladies who commit crimes must not expect to be handled with kid gloves." "She is an Englishwoman, or with English connections; titled, too. I hesitate, upon my word. Suppose we are wrong?
Such were the cries which presently became familiar in the school, until one day Mr Rastle dropped down on some twenty of the "howlers," and set them each twelve propositions of Euclid to learn by heart, and two hours a-piece in the detention-room, there to meditate over their evil ways. The quiet of the lower school during the next week was something delicious.
A few slunk sulkily to answer to their names in the detention-room, and others, with the air of men to whom time is no object and exertion no temptation, lounged about in the corridors with hands in pockets, regarding listlessly the general stampede of their fellows, and apparently not knowing exactly what to do with themselves.
It was an old room looking on to the garden, scantily furnished, with a patch of carpet by the window and a table and chair set upon it. More turned round from the window-seat on which he was kneeling to look out, and smiled genially as Ralph heard the servant close the door. "Why, Mr. Torridon, are you in trouble too? This is the detention-room whither I am sent to consider myself."
Mike watched them start and then turned to go in. There is only one thing to be said in favour of detention on a fine summer's afternoon, and that is that it is very pleasant to come out of. The sun never seems so bright or the turf so green as during the first five minutes after one has come out of the detention-room. One feels as if one were entering a new and very delightful world.
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