I had done so little--and they thanked me so much for it." "Which only shows," Lady Meadowcroft broke in, "that one ought always to have a LADY to nurse one." "Ca marche!" Hilda said to me, with a quiet smile, a few minutes after, when her ladyship had disappeared in her fluffy robe down the companion-ladder.
"Yes, ca marche," I answered.

"In an hour or two you will have succeeded in landing your chaperon.

And what is most amusing, landed her, too, Hilda, just by being yourself--letting her see frankly the actual truth of what you think and feel about her and about everyone!" "I could not do otherwise," Hilda answered, growing grave.

"I must be myself, or die for it.

My method of angling consists in showing myself just as I am.