“Oh, for various reasons.”
“Name one.”
“Well, it is not my habit to chase after a fellow that everybody else is chasing.”
“Then the boys at the academy used to chase after Frank Merriwell?”
“Oh, he had a crowd that hung round him and seemed to think he was the proper thing.”
“And that is your only reason for disliking him?”
“Not by any means. But he was an upstart. You must remember that he was below me at the academy, and I graduated some time in advance of him. I never had much to do with him, for upper-classmen do not associate freely with plebes.”
By this time Inza was thoroughly aroused.
“It might have done you unspeakable good if you had associated with him more,” she said.
“In what way?”