And I really would enjoy seeing him often, especially now when everybody else is gone or going for the rest of the summah.

Besides, he'd think it mighty queah for me to write to him not to come next Thursday.

But I'd hate to really interfere with Bernice's happiness, if it has grown to be such a serious affair with her that she can cry about it.

I'd hate to have her going through the rest of her life thinking that I had deliberately wronged her, and if she's breaking her heart ovah it"-- she stopped abruptly.
"Oh, I don't see that you have any call to do the grand renouncing act!" exclaimed Katie.

"Why should you cut yourself off from a good time and a good friend by snubbing him?
It will put you in a very unpleasant light, for you couldn't explain without making Bernice appear a perfect ninny.
And if you don't explain, what will he think of you?
Let me tell you, it is more than she would do for you if you were in her place.