The passage is : «Only that morning he had refused to eat his wholesome bread-and-milk on the seemingly
frivolous ground that there was a frog in it.«….» Older and wiser and better people had told him that there
could not possibly be a frog in his bread-and-milk and that he was not to talk nonsense. «…». The dramatic part of the
incident was that there really was a frog in Nicholas' basin of bread-and-milk; he had put it there himself, so he felt entitled
to know something about it. The sin of taking a frog from the garden and putting it into a bowl of wholesome
bread-and-milk was enlarged on at great length….»
Hi, You are right. this sentence implies that «older and wiser and better people» were discussing his sin in great detail The idea is that somehow they found out what he had done. Best wishes, Clive
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