Yet there was a little.

Friends are still trying to clear his name, and I believe are meeting with increasing success.
I don't know, of course, whether he'll say anything about it to-day--_now_.

To think I had to be right round under foot like that when they met!" went on Billy, indignantly.

"I shouldn't have been, in a minute more, though.

I was just trying to think up an excuse to come up and send down Miss Greggory, when Mary Jane began to tell me something--I haven't the faintest idea what--then _she_ appeared, and it was all over.