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With regard to my cousin, I must say, people abuse her unjustly; she is not very tiresome, this fat cousin of mine; I heard of nothing but her absurdities, and was warned against taking up my abode with her and choosing her for my chaperone, as her persecutions would drive me frantic and our life would be one continuous quarrel. I am happy to say that none of these horrors have been realized.
Besides that, we aren't going to any of your confounded social functions; we're going on a reg'lar picnic, and if I don't give those girls the time of their lives my name ain't John Merrick. A chaperone, indeed!" Mrs. Merrick held up her hands in horror. "I'm not sure, John," she gasped, "that I ought to trust my dear child with an uncle who disregards so openly the proprieties."
Pending the departure for Severndale, Mrs. Harold had, at Captain Stewart's request, engaged three extra rooms, thus practically preempting her entire corridor for her guests, and a jollier party it would have been hard to find than the one escorted down to the big dining-room that evening by "The Executive Officer," as Captain Stewart called Mrs. Harold, who was acting as chaperone for his party.
"I'm sure we won't want anything like evening dresses. Where could we wear them up in the wilderness?" "Why, perhaps there may be a lumbermen's dance." "Oh, listen to Mollie! As if we'd go!" "Why not? Of course we could go if we had a chaperone," and Mollie, who had proposed this, looked rather defiantly at her chums.
"Frightened of being seen with me?" he asked. "When I've Jill for a chaperone?" "Why don't you come as far as Broughton with me?" "Across the river?" "I've a punt moored not far from here." "But I've got to get back to a meal." "We can get something to eat there." "I don't think I will." "Is it too far?" "I can walk any distance." "Someone was asking about you the other day." "Who?"
Mr. Stone and Mr. Kennedy, sometimes one, often both, went with the girls. Occasionally Will and his friends ran out for a day or two, taking cruises with Betty, and her chums. Aunt Kate remained as chaperone, others who had been invited finding it impossible to come. The girls' mothers made up a party and paid them a visit one day, being royally entertained at the time.
Emery had been really out-and-out forbidden by Dr. Melton to get out of bed for two or three days, and as for Madeleine at this point Madeleine had snatched the receiver from Lydia's hand and had informed her brother that Madeleine was going to be busy with her young man and couldn't get off to chaperone people that had been as long engaged as he and Lydia.
It was a parrot, and there was something so uncanny in its sudden appearance that Paul started: "He seems to be your chaperone!" he observed. "He is my mascot!" cried Dorothy. "If it were not for his company, I fear I should go mad. I am so lonely, Paul, you can not understand it." "Have you no neighbors?" he inquired.
Miss Blank might have been going on till now, holding nightly receptions, without having exhausted her list of self-invited guests; I had but one answer; the lady was a comparative stranger to me, and not a professional medium; ergo, the legion must ask some one to chaperone them elsewhere. Spirit Faces had got comparatively common and almost gone out since I wrote.
"Come, Nancy, dear," floated Miss Campbell's voice across the garden. She was too careful a chaperone to permit one of her girls to wander at dusk with a strange young Japanese. Nancy quickened her pace. Nevertheless, she felt a little impatient with all these restrictions. "I am almost eighteen. I suppose I might be trusted to look after myself occasionally," she thought with some irritation.
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