"I'M GOING TO WIN" Nearly all of Billy's friends knew that Bertram Henshaw was in love with Billy Neilson before Billy herself knew it.

Not that they regarded it as anything serious--"it's only Bertram" was still said of him on almost all occasions.

But to Bertram himself it was very serious.
The world to Bertram, indeed, had come to assume a vastly different aspect from what it had displayed in times past.

Heretofore it had been a plaything which like a juggler's tinsel ball might be tossed from hand to hand at will.

Now it was no plaything--no glittering bauble.