Nelson didn’t know what else he would have said if he could speak, but at this point he was brimming over with jubilance, and felt gratified that even Professor Ruskin looked a little pleased. He stood up, scraping his chair backwards with a horrendous noise, but couldn’t even wince at that - only nod at the next appointment. Merlin, he was going to have to try hard to look as though he was trying, and hopefully make some progress before exams at the end of the year, whether he was exempt from them or not!
