Laura couldn't be more interested in you if she were truly your sister." That was the sting that made Dick's going away bitter.

Cameron's manner was so easy and assured that Dick saw the crumbling of one of his more than half built castles in Spain.
The train carried the two cadets away.

The parents of both young men had seen to it that the cadets went away in a parlor car.
Dick and Greg, after leaving Gridley behind, swung their chairs around so that, while they looked out of the window, their heads were close together.
"Cameron had a nerve to show up, didn't hey" demanded Greg indignantly.
"I don't know," Dick replied very quietly.

"He tried to be very kind and cordial." "Shucks!" uttered Greg, disgustedly.

"Doesn't he know that Laura Bentley is your girl, and that he's only a b.j.