A difficulty you faced

Today, I ran into a difficulty. I had to persuade a friend of mine to return some books I had loaned to him. He promised to return the books long ago but he did not. It has been three weeks and he has yet to return the books to me. The fine for not returning the books on time has been accumulating for several days. Today, about now, he is going to fly to London to study. At first, in the morning, I was at a loss as to what to do. If he went off without returning the books, I would have to pay the fines, which amounted up to over four dollars and also replace the missing books, which would cost at least four times the fine. Thankfully, I had a good friend who thought of a suggestion. He knew the teacher in charge of planning the trip for the friend going to London and had offered to talk to him about the books for me. During recess, I followed him to see the teacher. The teacher, upon hearing about my friend’s doings, was fuming mad. He immediately looked up my friend and told him that unless he returned the books and paid the fine, he would have to cancel my friend’s trip to London. My friend, upon hearing that, was terrified and immediately went back to his room in the hostel to retrieve the books and followed me to pay the fine. After that was over, I heaved a sigh of relief. If not for my good friend, I would have landed a huge debt.