It was impossible to chaperon her every minute, and Fanny, unchaperoned, was, in the realistic phrase of her brother, "looking for trouble." "I'll send her to boarding-school next year," Gabriella determined; and she reflected gloomily that with Fanny and, Archibald both away, she might as well be a bachelor woman.
"Well, children, you're both going away next winter," she said positively.

"I can't look after you, Fanny, and make your living at the same time, so I shall send you to boarding-school.

What do you say to Miss Bradfordine's ?" "That's up on the Hudson, mother.

I don't want to go out of New York." Fanny was genuinely alarmed at last.
"The farther away from New York the better, my daughter." "What will you do here all alone with Miss Polly?
"Oh, we'll do very well," answered Gabriella with cheerful promptness; "you need not worry about me." "If I'm good this summer, will you change your mind, mother ?" "Try being good, and see." Though Gabriella spoke sweetly, it was with the obstinate sweetness of Mrs.Carr.One thing she had resolved firmly in the last quarter of an hour: Fanny should go away to boarding-school next September.
"Ain't you goin' to walk in the suffrage parade this year, Fanny ?" inquired Miss Polly, who always thought it necessary to interrupt an argument between Gabriella and her daughter.
"I haven't anything to wear," replied Fanny pettishly.

Her brief interest in "votes for women" had evaporated with the entrance of the matine idol into her life.
"There's a lovely white gown just in from Paris I'll get for you," said Gabriella pleasantly.