Also, he was very rude and unmannerly.
Also,--and this is why I hate him so,--he's suddenly grown rich, Adele, and he's terribly ostentatious about it----" "Bill Farnsworth ostentatious! I don't believe it!" "Yes, he is.

He showed off big rolls of money at the Sale----" "But, Patty, he was buying things, wasn't he ?" "I don't care if he was.

And, besides, Adele, he--well, he implied, if he didn't say it straight out, that now he was rich, maybe I'd marry him! As if I was a fortune-hunter!" "Oh, Patty, you little goose! Bill has always been poor, or at least, he had only a moderate income.

I can see how he would be glad if he had good fortune, to offer it to you.

Poor Bill! You mistook his meaning, I'm sure." "No, I didn't, and I hate him, and I never want to hear his name mentioned again!" "Nor see him ?" "Mercy, no! And now, drop the subject.