. Hobson asked me whether I wouldn’t tell Hodgson that all conversation must stop when the monitor comes in to take Prep, but it always does when I take it, apparently they go on until Hobson is halfway up the room. I have my suspicions that Hobson at present does not inspire the awe he should, at least it is certainly a coincidence that almost every case we had last term and this to do with Prep was shown up by him, I always imagined it was simply I was perhaps a trifle indulgent but I am beginning to have my doubts. I certainly have got myself to be instantly obeyed.
Life at Westminster School at the beginning of the 20th Century
