"My uncle says we fellows may swim.

Tell the other fellows." "Gosh! but that's good--John.

I'll tell 'em." John rode on and fell to thinking of Leila, with some humiliating suspicion in regard to her share in the Squire's change of mind; or was it Aunt Ann's influence?
And why did he himself not altogether like it?
Why should his aunt and Leila interfere?
He wished they had let the matter alone.

What had a girl to do with it?
He was again conscious that he felt of a sudden older than Leila, and did not fully realize that in the race of life he had gone swiftly past her during these few months, and that in the next year she in turn would sweep past him in the developmental changes of life.

Now she seemed to him more timid, more childlike than usual; but long thinkings are not of the psychic habits of normal youth, and Dixy recovered his attention.
He satisfied the well-bred horse, who of late had been losing his temper in the society of a rough groom, ignorant of the necessity for good manners with horses.