To like the same girl makes young men curiously observant of each
other.
A disappointment was in store for them. They had taken it for granted that
Clover would be as disengaged and as much at their service as she had been
in the valley; and lo! she sat on the piazza with a knot of girls about
her, and a young man in an extremely "fetching" costume of snow-white
duck, with a flower in his button-hole, was bending over her chair, and
talking in a low voice of something which seemed of interest. He looked
provokingly cool and comfortable to the dusty horsemen, and very much at
home. Phil, who lounged against the piazza-rail opposite, dispensed an
enormous and meaning wink at his two friends as they came up the steps.
Clover jumped up from her chair, and gave them a most cordial reception.
"How delightful to see you again so soon!" she said. Then she introduced
them to a girl in pink and a girl in blue as Miss Perham and Miss
Blanchard, and they shook hands with Marian Chase, whom they already knew,
and lastly were presented to Mr. Wade, the youth in white. The three young
men eyed one another with a not very friendly scrutiny, just veiled by the
necessary outward politeness.
"Then you will be all ready for Thursday,--and your brother too, of
course,--and my mother will stop for you at half-past ten on her way
down," they heard him say. "Miss Chase will go with the Hopes.
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