The Summer Session at Devon was a more relaxed time for the students. Not academically but rule wise. The boys got to stay up, play cards, sleep on the beach, jump out of trees, and even sweet talk teachers sometimes. The winter and Devon was the back to normal clean-cut traditional boarding school. But besides the fact that it was physically back to normal, it was definitely not social normal at all. With Finny not yet back at the beginning of school, Brinker was growing suspicious. All of the boys talked about Finny’s fall but not to Gene. With the social hierarchy in awry, Brinker stepped up his game with knowing everybody and being a bit more suspicious with Gene.
“‘Here you are in solitary splendor,’ he went on genially. ‘I can see you have real influence here. This big room all to yourself. I wish I knew how to manage things like you.”… It didn’t seem fitting go Brinker Hadley, the hub of the class, to be congratulating me on influence.”
Without Finny’s sports he isn’t as popular as Brinker is and everything socially tipped. Phineas, already knowing that Gene jounced the limb but doesn’t want to believe it, is going to be very awkward in front of Gene when Brinker starts asking questions. If and when Brinker prosecutes Gene and it comes out, Finny will still not believe that his best friend shattered his leg and ruined his life. The winter term at Devon is going to be a session of truth.
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