"She is nearly wild about it, because she knows he will try to do something that will make you feel as if she does not want you." "She is afraid of that ?" Betty exclaimed.
"He'd do it! He'd do it--if you did not know beforehand." "Oh!" said Betty, with unflinching clearness.

"He is a liar, is he ?" The helpless rage in the unchildish eyes, the shaking voice, as he cried out in answer, were a shock.

It was as if he wildly rejoiced that she had spoken the word.
"Yes, he's a liar--a liar!" he shrilled.

"He's a liar and a bully and a coward.

He'd--he'd be a murderer if he dared--but he daren't." And his face dropped on his arms folded on his crutch, and he broke into a passion of crying.