So I'm going to tell it here.
I've found out now what's the matter with the girls--you know I said there _was_ something the matter with them; that they acted queer and stopped talking when I came up, and faded away till there wasn't anybody but me left; and about the party Stella Mayhew had and didn't invite me.
Well, it's been getting worse and worse.

Other girls have had parties, and more and more often the girls have stopped talking and have looked queer when I came up.

We got up a secret society and called it the "Tony Ten," and I was going to be its president.

Then all of a sudden one day I found there wasn't any Tony Ten--only Carrie Heywood and me.
The other eight had formed another society and Stella Mayhew was their president.
I told Carrie we wouldn't care; that we'd just change it and call it the "Tony Two"; and that two was a lot more exclusive than ten, anyway.

But I did care, and Carrie did.