Also , his evenings were so full of work that he seldom joined the others in Rainbow Valley now . He seemed to be drifting away into grown-up land . `` What is the matter with you all to-night ? '' he asked . `` There 's no fun in you . '' `` Not much , '' agreed Faith dolefully . `` There would n't be much fun in you either if YOU knew you were disgracing your father and making people talk about you . '' `` Who 's been talking about you now ? '' `` Everybody -- so Mary Vance says . '' And Faith poured out her troubles to sympathetic Jem . `` You see , '' she concluded dolefully , `` we 've nobody to bring us up . And so we get into scrapes and people think we 're bad . '' `` Why do n't you bring yourselves up ? '' suggested Jem . `` I 'll tell you what to do . Form a Good-Conduct Club and punish yourselves every time you do anything that 's not right . '' `` That 's a good idea , '' said Faith , struck by it . `` But , '' she added doubtfully , `` things that do n't seem a bit of harm to US seem simply dreadful to other people . How can we tell ? We ca n't be bothering father all the time -- and he has to be away a lot , anyhow . ''
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