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When you drop his weekly three and sixpence into the hand of your office-boy on Saturday, possibly you fancy he takes it home to mother. He doesn't. He spend two-and-six on Woodbines. The other shilling goes into the treasury of the Boy Scouts. When you visit your nephew at Eton, and tip him five pounds or whatever it is, does he spend it at the sock-shop? Apparently, yes.
The meetings of the Eton Society were held over Miss Hatton's "sock-shop." In politics its members were Tory intensely so, and although current politics were forbidden subjects, yet, political opinions were disclosed in discussions of historical or academical questions.
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