CHAPTER XV.
To understand Aunt Caroline's arrival at Friendly Bay we should have to understand Aunt Caroline, and that, as Euclid says, is absurd.
Therefore we shall have to take the arrival for granted.

The only light which she herself ever shed upon the matter was a statement that she "had a feeling." And feelings, to Aunt Caroline, were the only reliable things in a strictly unreliable world.

To follow a feeling across a continent was a trifle to a determined character such as hers.

To insist upon Dr.Rogers following it, too, was a matter of course.
"I shall need an escort," said Aunt Caroline to that astonished physician, "and you will do very nicely.

If Benis is off his head, as you suggest, it is my plain duty to look into the matter and your plain duty, as his medical adviser, to accompany me.