This child was frequently disconcerting.

Prudence attacked her chicken wing.
"If I spoke to him, my interest might be misinterpreted." "Where did you go to school ?" Prudence asked, seeking a new channel, for the old one appeared to be full of hidden reefs.
"I never went to school." "But you are educated!"-- astonished.
"That depends upon what you call educated.

Still, my tutor was a highly educated scholar--my father." Neither spinster noticed the reluctance in the tones.
"Ah! I see.

He suddenly realized that he could not keep you for ever in this part of the world; so he sends you to your aunt.

That dress! Only a man--and an unworldly one--would have permitted you to proceed on your adventure dressed in a gown thirty years out of date.