"I told you how it would be!" "Now whom shall we get ?" questioned William again.

"We must think." Unattached gentlewomen of suitable age and desirable temper did not prove to be so numerous among the Henshaws' acquaintances, however, as to make the selection of a chaperon very easy.

Several were thought of and suggested; but in each case the candidate was found to possess one or more characteristics that made the idea of her presence utterly abhorrent to some one of the brothers.

At last William expostulated: "See here, boys, we aren't any nearer a settlement than we were in the first place.

There isn't any woman, of course, who would exactly suit all of us; and so we shall just have to be willing to take some one who doesn't." "The trouble is," explained Bertram, airily, "we want some one who will be invisible to every one except the world and Billy, and who will be inaudible always." "I don't know but you are right," sighed William.