nine
o'clock
Hugh asked what Mrs. Watson would say to his hair , if he went to breakfast with it as it was . One of the maids was good-natured enough to comb it for him , for once : but she said he must carry a comb in his pocket ; as the boys were not allowed to go to their rooms , except at stated hours . At last , Hugh saw Mr. Tooke . When the boys entered school at nine o'clock , the master was at his desk . Hugh went up to his end of the room , with a smiling face , while Tom Holt hung back ; and he kept beckoning Tom Holt on , having told him there was nothing to be afraid of . But when , at last , Mr. Tooke saw them , he made no difference between the two , and seemed to forget having ever seen Hugh . He told them he hoped they would be good boys , and would do credit to Crofton ; and then he asked Mr. Carnaby to set them something to learn .