But Prescott saw no girl there who looked enough like Laura Bentley to interest him.

His standing in class interested him far more than hops at which a certain Gridley girl could not be present.
Laura had written him that she and Belle might be at a hop early in December.
"I'll wait and look forward to it," decided Dick.

But he said nothing, even to Greg.

Holmes was showing an ability to be interested in too many different girls, Prescott decided.
But it may be that Holmes, knowing that Griffin corresponded with his pretty, black-eyed little sister, may have been intentionally furnishing subjects for the news that was despatched to a Virginia seminary.
"Come on, old ramrod," urged Greg one Saturday night, as he gave great heed to his dressing.

"You'll bone yourself dry, staying here all the time with Smith's conic sections.