17/28 "I've something to show you," While she was looking through her desk to find it she asked, "Well, how goes it, little girl? When I went up stairs to dress for dinner I tried my best to be sociable, and brought up every subject that I thought would interest her. She barely answered till she found that I had come out to Warwick Hall from the city alone. That horrified her, to think I'd taken a step without a chaperon, and she said it in such a way that I couldn't help saying that I thought one must feel like a poodle tied to a string--always fastened to a chaperon. As for me give me liberty or give me death. |