"Why not ?" he pleaded.
"You oughtn't to ask," she returned.

"You've no business to have Miss Triscoe's picture, if you must know." "But you're there to chaperon us!" he persisted.
He began to laugh, and they all laughed when she said, "You need a chaperon who doesn't lose her head, in a silhouette." But it seemed useless to hold out after that, and she heard herself asking, "Shall we let him keep it, Miss Triscoe ?" Burnamy went off to his work with Stoller, carrying the silhouette with him, and she kept on with Miss Triscoe to her hotel.

In turning from the gate after she parted with the girl she found herself confronted with Mrs.Adding and Rose.

The ladies exclaimed at each other in an astonishment from which they had to recover before they could begin to talk, but from the first moment Mrs.March perceived that Mrs.Adding had something to say.

The more freely to say it she asked Mrs.March into her hotel, which was in the same street with the pension of the Triscoes, and she let her boy go off about the exploration of Carlsbad; he promised to be back in an hour.
"Well, now what scrape are you in ?" March asked when his wife came home, and began to put off her things, with signs of excitement which he could not fail to note.