So they were all very busy and anxious, or they would certainly
have noticed what a long time I stayed in Fee's room every afternoon,
and perhaps have suspected something.
Phil was the one Fee said he was most afraid would find out, but he was
a good deal in papa's room in the afternoons, and evenings he was
studying, 'cause his exams, were coming on, though sometimes he went for
long walks with Chad. Chad was very often at the house at this time, but
he never went in to see Fee; and after the first or second time I didn't
tell Fee, for he doesn't like Chad, and I could see he didn't want Phil
and Chad to be together without his being there too. We don't any of us
care very much for Chad,--not half or even a quarter as much as we do
for Hilliard; even Betty has to admit that, for all she makes such fun
of Hill's slow ways. You see Chad puts on such silly airs, pretending
he's a grown-up man, when really he's only a boy,--he's only a year
older than Phil. And then he talks so much about his money, and wears
_diamonds_,--rings and pins and buttons,--fancy! As Betty says, nice men
and boys don't wear diamonds like that.
Betty is awfully rude to Chad sometimes; she calls him Monsieur le
Don_key_, and Dresden-china-young man, and laughs at him almost to his
face.
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