“And if we are found out?” asked Maurice. He was still on his knees in the thicket, and, as he looked up to where his companion stood in an awkward fumbling attitude, his face seemed even more than usually pale and meagre in the grey broken light. It was with rather forced  nonchalance that Carruthers answered. “O, the sack, I suppose.” – and he stopped aghast at the other’s expression. Then as only at one other time in a long and well-rewarded life did he feel that a millstone round his neck might perhaps be less offensive than the picture of those small, startled features hung for all eternity before his eyes.

At the age of eighteen, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff (1889–1930) published his story Evensong and Morwe Song in the pageant issue of New Field, the literary magazine he edited at Winchester School. Circulated widely among parents, pupils, and masters, the magazine reached far beyond the school itself. The story caused such a scandal that the issue was immediately suppressed and its editor expelled.