"
Fee got up slowly, but Phil hesitated. "I wonder if Chad will be round?"
he said.
"Oh, not to-night," answered Nora, quickly. "Why, didn't you hear him
say last evening that he was going out of town for two or three days?"
Fee's face lighted up, and he opened his big eyes at me,--I know he was
delighted; and it seemed to me that Phil's surprised "No! is _that_ so?"
did not sound very sorry.
"Oh, hurry in, _do_!" Nora said impatiently. "I've kept the secret all
the afternoon,--until we had a chance to talk quietly together,--and now
it is just burning my lips to get out. Come, Jack, you, too."
XVII.
NORA'S SECRET.
TOLD BY JACK.
Of course that brought us into the drawing-room in double-quick time.
Fee threw himself full-length on a lounge; Phil sat on a chair with his
face to the back, which he hugged with both arms; I took the next
chair,--the biggest in the room; and pulling over the piano stool, Nora
seated herself on that, and swung from side to side as she spoke to the
different ones.
For a minute she just sat and smiled at us without a word, until Phil
said: "Well, fire away! We're all ears."
"Who do you think has been here to-day?" began Nora.
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