"I stood up for what I believed in, sir" he replied. "And I stood by my honour. As a member of the Dead Poets" Well, he could tell him surely? It wasn't like it was going to have any dire consequences, being so far from home, having lost his friends.
"I didn't give the names of my friends up for the honour of our teacher, our friend, Mr Keating... Mr Keating didn't do anything wrong but he was being blamed for something horrible" he explained. "My school needed a patsy, someone to pin the blame on... And they wanted rid of Keating. So they blamed him for Neil's death, said that it was his fault. I knew it wasn't so... I stood up for him. Meant I got kicked out for it" he shrugged, leaning back on the seat. Now he was itching for a smoke...