"If she does, I shall run away from school and become something--a robber, or a gipsy, or a heroine." But the cruellest part, perhaps, of the blow was that Dan himself did not resent it.

In fact, he showed every sign of delight with the plan, and was wild with excitement for the term to begin.

To the girls this seemed rank treachery, a complete going over to the enemy, and they felt it keenly.
"I didn't think Dan would have changed so," said Kitty dejectedly, as she and Betty lay in their beds discussing the serious state of affairs.
"I don't know," said Betty darkly.

"_I_ thought he was very odd the night Aunt Pike came.

First there was the rude way he spoke to me about my making up to her, and then _he_ went and got that bottle of embercation for her.