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146 “What brings him to Sunnyside?”

“He didn’t say.”

“I never heard of him before,” Professor Parkhurst said.

“Oh, yes. I used to talk about him a great deal. He’s a fine fellow.”

“Was he a special friend?” Jarvis asked, roused to some interest.

Bambi hesitated. She was getting in deeper than she planned.

“Yes, rather special. Not intimate, but special.”

“What is his business?” asked her father.

“I don’t remember.”

“Rich idler, I suppose,” Jarvis scorned.

“He used to work when I knew him.”

“Well, we shall be glad to see the young man. Would you like me to change off my afternoon classes and remain at home?”

“Oh, no. Don’t think of it!” Bambi cried, with unpremeditated warmth, which focussed Jarvis’s eyes upon her. “He’ll be here only a little while, and we will reminisce. He would bore you to death.”

“I like to be cordial to your beaus.”

“Professor Parkhurst, I am a married woman.”