'Go on!' 'And--I should--perhaps--beg you to let Pamela do some V.A.D.

work, if she wants to.' 'Pamela is your affair!' said the Squire impatiently.

'If you stay here, you are her chaperon, and, for the present, head of the household.' 'Only just for the present--till Pamela can do it!' put in Elizabeth hastily.

'But she's nineteen--she ought to take a part.' 'Well, don't bother me about that.

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