and Jack looked as firm as a rock . `` Then I shall find out , for I have n't promised . '' `` You ca n't . '' `` See if I do n't ! '' `` You are sharp , but you wo n't guess this . It 's a tremendous secret , and nobody will tell it . '' `` You 'll tell it yourself . You always do . '' `` I wo n't tell this . It would be mean . '' `` Wait and see ; I can get anything out of you if I try ; '' and Jill laughed , knowing her power well , for Jack found it very hard to keep a secret from her . `` Do n't try ; please do n't ! It would n't be right , and you do n't want to make me do a dishonorable thing for your sake , I know . '' Jack looked so distressed that Jill promised not to make him tell , though she held herself free to find out in other ways , if she could . Thus relieved , Jack trudged off to school on Friday with the two dollars and seventy-five cents jingling in his pocket , though the dear gold coin had to be sacrificed to make up the sum . He did his lessons badly that day , was late at recess in the afternoon , and , as soon as school was over , departed in his rubber boots `` to take a walk , '' he said , though the roads were in a bad state with a spring thaw . Nothing was seen of him till after tea-time , when he came limping in , very dirty and tired , but with a reposeful expression , which betrayed that a load was off his mind . Frank was busy about his own affairs and paid little attention to him , but Jill was on tenter-hooks to know where he had been , yet dared not ask the question . `` Merry 's brother wants some cards . He liked hers so much he wishes to make his lady-love a present .
Here 's the name ; '' and XXXXX held up the order from Harry Grant , who was to be married in the autumn .
Jack Jill afternoon cents day dollars lady-love right tea-time tenter-hooks