He supposed they meant to wave them at the officers, but at the look he gave them they merely put their hats together and snickered in derision of him.

They were American girls of the worst type; they conformed to no standard of behavior; their conduct was personal.

They ought to be taken home.
Mrs.March said she saw what he meant, and she agreed with him that they were altogether unformed, and were the effect of their own ignorant caprices.

Probably, however, it was too late to amend them by taking them away.
"It would hide them, at any rate," he answered.

"They would sink back into the great mass of our vulgarity, and not be noticed.