Willoughby little dreamed that night, as it went to bed, of the
revolutions and changes of the day which had just passed.
It knew that Silk and Gilks had been reported for fighting, and
naturally concluded that they had also been punished. It had heard,
too, a rumour of young Wyndham's having been "gated" for breaking
bounds.
But beyond that it knew nothing. Nothing of the treaty of peace between
the two captains, of the discovery of the boat-race mystery, of the
double expulsion that was impending.
And still less did it dream of the unwonted scene which was taking place
that evening in the captain's study.
Riddell and Gilks sat and talked far into the night.