"To-night, for instance, I hadn't the faintest idea how to behave.

Look at all those books I've read, too, when I might just as well have been enjoying myself.

I've found out to-night, Father, that books can't tell you everything--not even books on etiquette." Vetch broke into a laugh of boisterous amusement.

"So that is how you have been spending your time!" he exclaimed.

"You'd better trust to your common sense, my dear; it will carry you straighter." "Oh, no, it doesn't.