Crossword-Solution: STANNING 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

But like a fool I decided to hang on a bit and watch, instead of going right off in that car and fetching help from Stanning.” “It was just as well you waited,” said Desmond, “for if you’d gone off at once they must have heard the car and the fat would have been in the fire straight away!” And he told Francis of the loud dispute among the confederates in the library, the noise of which had effectually covered the sound of the departing ear.

And here those who troubled to think about it wondered still more, for Sheen, whatever his other demerits, was not of the type of Stanning and Attell.

That Sheen should have been amongst these surprised one or two people, notably Mr Seymour, who, being games' master had come a good deal into contact with Stanning, and had not been favourably impressed.

Since the advent of Drummond he had avoided Stanning, and he could not see him without feeling uncomfortable.

What's the good of swotting, though? I'm not going to do a stroke." As Stanning was the only one of his rivals of whom he had any real fear, Sheen might have replied with justice that, if that was the case, the more he swotted the better.