An American child might either consciously or unconsciously introduce them.

As this must be guarded against, Betty's first few months at the school were not agreeable to her.

She was supervised and expurgated, as it were.

Special Sisters were told off to converse and walk with her, and she soon perceived that conversations were not only French lessons in disguise, but were lectures on ethics, morals, and good manners, imperfectly concealed by the mask and domino of amiable entertainment.

She translated into English after the following manner the facts her swift young perceptions gathered.