"Not at all, Walter; on the contrary, it will take a good deal of moral courage to confess your fault now.  Of course it would have been far nobler had you gone straight to your father and told him just how things were; and then, too, you would not have been Dick's tempter, leading him to sin.  Still, there is a right and noble course open to you now, dear boy, which is to go and undo the mischief and the wrong as far as you can."