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Updated: June 27, 2025
"Dear Dig, Here's a game! The gov's been and lost a lot of the luggage, and ma won't go home without it, so we're booked here for a week more. He's written to Ponsford to say I can't turn up till next week, and says I'm doing some of the mug, so as not to be all behind. Jolly good joke of the gov.'s, isn't it? Catch me mugging here! "Stunning place, this!
How, next, Dr Ponsford rose with a rustle of his silk gown, which was heard all over the hall in the dead silence, and proceeded to tell the Earl of Somebody and the other distinguished guests what everybody knew, namely, that the school had now come to the end of another year's work, and etcetera, etcetera.
Railsford's house should get a name for pluck and esprit de corps; and Railsford and his boys should show the way to Grandcourt! How Dr Ponsford and the "session of masters" would follow their lead it did not at present enter into the head of the vain young man to settle. A knock came at his door as he stood lost in these pleasing reflections, and Grover entered.
It is kind of you to take steps to make your meaning quite clear on this matter. May I suggest that we refer the matter to the session of masters, or, if you prefer it, to Dr Ponsford? I believe the masters meet to-night.
I had to castigate one of the ringleaders myself Herapath by name, claiming kinship with you, by the way. I'm not sure that you ought not to report him to Dr Ponsford." It was all Railsford could do to listen quietly to this speech, drawled out slowly and cuttingly by his rival. He made a desperate effort to control himself, as he replied
"I hope, Mr Branscombe, your son is no worse. We should be sorry to lose him. We looked upon him as a promising boy." The gentleman looked hard at the doctor. "You surely say this to spare my feelings. Dr Ponsford. Of course I understand my son can never return here." "Is that so? I am truly sorry." "You would be the last to wish him to return to a school in which his name has been so disgraced."
"I fancied when I came here I should get lots of time to myself enough perhaps to write my book on Comparative Political Economy. Vain hope! I haven't time to turn round. If my days were twenty-six hours I should scarcely then do all I ought to do here. Ponsford is getting old, and leaves the executive to his lieutenants.
Railsford, considerably flurried, slipped into the place which Grover had reserved for him just as the head boy present began to recite the Latin collect, and became painfully aware that his already damaged character for punctuality was by no means enhanced in the severe eyes of Dr Ponsford. The new master glanced round a little nervously at his colleagues.
Dr Ponsford, however, massive, stern, with his shaggy eyebrows and pursed mouth, was above any such weakness. "What have you been doing since you left college?" demanded he, presently fixing the candidate with his eyes. It was a home question. Railsford answered it honestly, if hesitatingly.
And the friends went on to talk of other matters. After a while Grover hastened away to his own house, leaving Railsford somewhat uneasy in his mind. If Dr Ponsford were to question him on the subject of the chariot race, he felt that he would be seriously compromised at the outset of his career.
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