He did not wink back.
Even to his liberal mind, it did not seem right to wink in a Sunday-school.
When at last they all sang "Bringing in the Sheaves," and were ably dismissed by Lyman Teaford, who could be as solemn here as he was gay in a parlour with his flute, Winona took the Merle twin across the room to greet the Whipple stepmother and the Whipple girl.

Wilbur regarded the scene from afar.

Winona seemed to be showing off the Merle twin, causing him to display all his perfect manners, including a bow lately acquired.
The Wilbur twin felt no slight in this.

He was glad enough to be left out of Winona's manoeuvres, for he saw that they were manoeuvres and that Winona was acting from some large purpose.

Unless it wanted its money back, the Whipple family had no meaning for him; it was merely people with the Whipple nose, though, of course, the stepmother did not have this.