I don't think they've seen us yet." Completely absorbed in their own affairs the approaching couple had not noticed either Grace or Anne.
"How could I have been so foolish!" the two girls heard Marian say tearfully.
"Don't be an idiot," her companion answered in rough tones.

"You may win yet.

I had inside information that it was safe to put the money on it.
You act like a baby." Then he muttered something that was inaudible to the listeners.
"You are very unkind, Henry," wailed Marian.
But in the next instant Henry Hammond had seen the two girls.

With a savage "cut it out, can't you! Don't let every one know your business," his scowling expression changed to the polite smiling mask that he habitually wore.
But Grace, who in spite of her former disagreement with him, had for Marian's sake favored him with a cool bow when he happened to cross her path even after Marian had stopped speaking, was up in arms at his display of rudeness to the girl who had cut herself off from her dearest friends to please him.
Marian averted her face as they passed opposite the chums, but her companion, who was preparing to bow, became suddenly disconcerted by the steady, scornful gaze of two pairs of eyes, that looked their full measure of contempt, and hastily turning his attention to Marian passed by without speaking.
"Contemptible coward!" raged Grace.

"Did you hear what he said, Anne ?" "I should have cut his acquaintance on the spot." "There is something queer about all this," mused Grace.