Then, all at once, it came over me like a rush how mean I was to want
Felix to wait such a long time for me to do this for him, when, through
aunt Lindsay's kindness, he could go to college right away. I got
awfully ashamed, and going quickly over to Fee's side, I knelt down by
him and threw my arm over his shoulder. "Fee," I said,--he still had his
face in the cushions,--"I'm _very_, _very_, _very_ glad you are to go to
college this fall,--_really_ and _truly_ I am, Fee."
I didn't see anything funny about this, but Phil and Nora began to
laugh, and, sitting up, Felix said, smiling, "Why, I know you are,
Jacqueminot; I never doubted it for a moment. And by and by, when Phil
and I are staid old seniors, your turn will come,--we'll see to that."
Then, looking round at us, he went on, speaking rapidly, excitedly: "_At
last_ it has come, and when I least expected it--when I had given up all
hope. I can hardly believe it! _Now_ I shall go in for the hardest sort
of hard work, for I've great things to accomplish. Don't think I'm
conceited, but I'm going to try for _all_ the honours that a fellow can;
and I'll get them, too--I'll get them; I _must!_ I promised--_her_--" He
broke off abruptly and turned away, then presently added in a lighter
tone: "I must write to my twinnie to-night,--how delighted she will be!
Oh, I tell you, you don't any of you know what this is to me!--but
there, I _can't_ talk of it.
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