His tutor found his pupil on the staircase half an hour later, and for a long while he could not make out whether he was ill-tempered or crying.

"What is it? I expect you hurt yourself when you fell down?" said the tutor.

" I told you it was a dangerous game.

And we shall have to speak to the director.

" "If I had hurt myself, nobody should have found it out, that's certain.