I rather like her, poor little thing.
Don't I tell you she will do?
So far from objecting to her, I mean to go the round of India with her." "You have decided quickly." "Well, you see, if you insist upon accompanying me, I MUST have a chaperon; and Lady Meadowcroft will do as well as anybody else.

In fact, being be-ladied, she will do a little better, from the point of view of Society, though THAT is a detail.

The great matter is to fix upon a possible chaperon at once, and get her well in hand before we arrive at Bombay." "But she seems so complaining!" I interposed.

"I'm afraid, if you take her on, you'll get terribly bored with her." "If SHE takes ME on, you mean.

She's not a lady's-maid, though I intend to go with her; and she may as well give in first as last, for I'm going.