Gene and Finny's absence from the dinner was observed. So the following morning, they got visited by Mr. Prud'homme for where they were.
"We had been swimming in the river, Finny explained; then there had been a wrestling match, then there was that sunset that anybody would want to watch, then there'd been several friends we had to see on business-"(Knowles 21).
" 'The real reason, sir, was that we just had to jump out of that tree. You know that tree...' "(22).
Finny is telling the truth to Mr. Prud'homme about why they didn't show up. However, he's being a bit more dramatic. Mr. Prud'homme just laughed and left after Finny was done.
Mr. Prud'homme had left and now Finny and Gene were going to get ready. Finny changed his shirt into this very pink shirt.
" 'What's that thing?' "(24).
" 'It makes you look like a fairy!' "(24).
" 'This is a tablecloth,'..." (24).
Finny is explaining to Gene why he is wearing the pink shirt to calm Gene. Telling him it relates to the bombing on Central Europe.
" '...I'm wearing this as an emblem.' ...'I was reading in the paper that we bombed Central Europe for the first time the other day.' "
No one had asked about the shirt, until Mr. Patch-Withers came up to him after history. Gene was beginning to envy Finny as he watched him. "...Phineas could get away with anything." (25).
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