`` I have n't had a talk with you for ages and I have a million things to tell you . '' Dick smiled as if it hurt him to smile . `` I ca n't tonight , Jacky . Some other time we 'll have a good powwow , old chap . '' He took his hat and went out . Then Jill came flying in to hear all about it . I told her as well as I could , but she was n't satisfied . If Dick took it so quietly , she declared , I could n't have made it strong enough . `` If you had seen Dick 's face , '' I said , `` you would have thought I made it plenty strong . And I 'd like to know what Aunt Tommy will say to all this when she finds out . '' `` Well , you did n't tell a thing but what was true , '' said Jill . The next evening was Dick 's regular night for coming , but he did n't come , although Jill and I went down the lane a dozen times to watch for him . The night after that was prayer-meeting night . Dick had always walked home with Aunt Tommy and us , but that night he did n't . He only just bowed and smiled as he passed us in the porch . Aunt Tommy hardly spoke all the way home , only just held tight to Jill 's and my hands . But after we got home she seemed in great spirits and laughed and chatted with Father and Mother . `` What does this mean ? '' asked Jill , grabbing me in the hall on our way to bed . `` You 'd better get another novel from the cook and find out , '' I said grouchily .
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