one o'clock
The captain 's face left no doubt on that question . Railsford for a brief moment had shared the opinion of his distinguished pupil , that the doctor had let the house off easily . But two minutes ' reflection sufficed to undeceive him . The house was to dine daily at one o'clock in Railsford 's . That meant that they were to be cut off from all association with the rest of the school out of school hours , and that just when all the rest turned out into the playing-fields they were to sit down at their disgraced board . The half-holiday regulation was still worse . For that meant nothing short of the compulsory retirement of his boys from all the clubs , and , as far as athletics went , their total exclusion from every match or contest open to the whole school .