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We ought to let a few banks bust , just to encourage Alec . Thunder ! Phil 's all right ! '' Phil , on her way to a tea , reached Main Street shortly before three o'clock . Her forehandedness was due to the fact that her hostess -LRB- the wife of the college president -RRB- had asked her to perform divers and sundry preliminary offices pertaining to refreshments , and it had occurred to Phil that it would be as well to drop in at the Bartletts ' to see whether Rose had sent the cakes she had contracted to bake for the function , as the sophomore who delivered Rose 's creations was probably amusing himself at the try-out of baseball material on Mill 's Field . Shopkeepers restlessly pacing the sidewalk before the doors of their neglected stores informed Phil of the meeting at the court-room , and of the panicky rumors . No good reason occurred to Phil for absenting herself from a mass meeting at which her Uncle Alec was to speak .