Our kind anticipates these sorts of incidents. There are contingency plans for just such occasions and unspoken agreements with relatives possessing manor homes in the north country. A secluded residence; a few months of rehabilitation under stern yet compassionate avuncular supervision while your parents ring up every headmaster in the book inquiring about openings; and then it’s all right as rain. When Alfie White was expelled from Codderdale, he spent six months at his guardian’s home in Somerset practicing archery and playing stoolball at the local sports club. Not ideal, but not necessarily bad either.
I, on the other hand, didn’t have a flush relative moldering away on some country estate. It is one of the indignities that come with being nouveau riche. The closest we had was Chambl
