"I thought I'd rather do that than read to-day," he explained to Jill in the doorway.
"Good! I'm so glad! I hoped you'd come," the little girl welcomed him.
"Come in and--and see Juliette," she added hastily, remembering at the last moment that her brother had not looked with entire favor on her avowed admiration for this strange little boy.
Juliette, roused from her nap, was at first inclined to resent her visitor's presence.

In five minutes, however, she was purring in his lap.
The conquest of the kitten once accomplished, David looked about him a little restlessly.

He began to wonder why he had come.

He wished he had gone to see Joe Glaspell instead.

He wished that Jill would not sit and stare at him like that.