In the previous chapter, Dill, Jem and Scout get caught playing out the Radley's life story in the front yard by Atticus. They lie and say they aren't doing what he thinks they are doing, but Scout doesn't want to get into anymore trouble; so she asks the boys to stop playing the game for awhile. She also believes that Boo Radley might be watching them and might come after her during the night sometime...
In the previous chapter, Dill, Jem and Scout get caught playing out the Radley's life story in the front yard by Atticus. They lie and say they aren't doing what he thinks they are doing, but Scout doesn't want to get into anymore trouble; so she asks the boys to stop playing the game for awhile. She also believes that Boo Radley might be watching them and might come after her during the night sometime if they continue. As a result, Dill and Jem start leaving her out of their games. At the beginning of chapter 5, Scout says that Dill told her he loved only her, but he still mostly played with Jem. Scout explains it as follows:
"I beat him up twice but it did no good, he only grew closer to Jem. They spent their days together in the treehouse plotting and planning, calling me only when they needed a third party. But I kept aloof from their more foolhardy schemes for a while, and on pain of being called a girl, I spent most of the remaining twilights that summer sitting with Miss maudie atkinson on her front porch" (41).
Scout starts to hang out with Miss Maudie in the evenings, since the boys won't include her as much anymore. There seems to be a definite difference between the boys and Scout because she doesn't want to do anything to get into trouble. The boys, as she says above, seemed "foolhardy." She also stayed away so she wouldn't be condemned for being a girl, which she hates.
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