“I’m sorry I disgraced you, Chester!” she said, somewhat coldly.
“I’d rather given anything than to have my sister make such a spectacle of herself. All Fardale will know of it! They will say you are smitten on him—on that fellow!”
“Chester, I know how much you dislike him; but don’t you think you are somewhat in the wrong yourself?”
He started to his elbow, with a cry.
“It’s hard enough to be knocked out this way without having my sister go back on me for a dog like that!” he exclaimed fiercely.
“He is no dog, Chester! Have you forgotten that he stopped the runaway and saved me?”
“No! no! Wish I could!”
“Have you forgotten that this is the second time he has saved me? Surely I owe him something! I owe him respect, at least!”
“That’s all! You can keep away from him! June, you must stay in Fardale no longer. I’ll write mother. That is, if you do not decide to leave at once.”
“Perhaps I may not be able to leave.”