"You've all the deportment that's necessary in this family.

And salt water doesn't stain.

These boards have been washed with it many a time." The young man's face lost none of his irritation.
"But what on earth have you been doing ?" he exclaimed.

"Where have you been to get in a state like that ?" Andrew's face was suddenly overcast.

It did not please him to think of those last few hours.
"I had to go out to bring a mad woman home," he said.