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` Then there 's not much chance of his going back ? ' ` Not before Christmas at soonest . One would think the poor little fellow must have been aware of that ; but the verdict cut him up very much . I thought he had better be quiet till the heat of the day was past , so he lay on my bed till six o'clock , and then he said he was better ; but he hardly spoke all the way home . ' Wilmet went at once to see after him , and found him already in bed ; but whether sleepy , suffering , or sorrowful , she could not make out , for he hid his eyes from the candle , and only muttered ` No , thank you , ' in reply to whatever she offered , till she yielded to his evident longing for darkness and silence . He was up and about in the morning ; but when at noon Bernard rushed in from school , he was neither in the drawing-room , garden , nor office , and the door of his -- or rather Mr. Froggatt 's -- bed-room was locked . Bernard bounced at it , calling , ` Let me in , I say ; I 'll not make a row . '