"
"I'm sorry, you know; but I didn't suppose you'd mind--so much," Chad
began, in the meekest sort of tone. "You always seemed to understand
lots of things that the others didn't, and--"
But Nora interrupted: "I made allowances for you," she said, with her
little superior air, "knowing that you had lost your parents as a
little boy, and that you had had so little--now I will say _no_--home
training. Besides, I thought, perhaps"--she hesitated, then went
on--"that perhaps the others were a little hard on you; it seemed
rather unjust, simply because you were--well--different from ourselves.
But I didn't imagine for one moment that you were this sort of a
person. It isn't honourable to do those things,--don't you know that?
It is low and wicked."
"I only wanted Phil to have a good time; I never thought he was such a
baby he'd get any harm," exclaimed Chad, a little sulkily, getting
awfully red, even to his ears. "And as to Felix, he came of his own free
will. It's he that has told you all this, and set you up against me.
Felix doesn't like me, and he hasn't taken any pains to hide it. I don't
see why he came up there last night, if he thinks we're so wicked.
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