I thought it would be a good thing, while I was Earl Jiguel and you was a noble earl-ess, to come to a place where people acted that way.

I knowed you had read lots o' books about knights and princes an' bloody towers, an' that you knowed all about them things, but I didn't suppose you did know how them same things looked in these days, an' a lunertic asylum was the only place where you could see 'em.

So I went to a doctor I knowed,' he says, 'an' got a certificate from him to this private institution, where we could stay for a while an' get posted on romantics.' "'Then,' says I, 'the upshot was that you wanted to teach a lesson.' "'Jus' that,' says he.
"'All right,' says I; 'it's teached.

An' now let's get out of this as quick as we kin.' "'That'll suit me,' he says, 'an' we'll leave by the noon train.

I'll go an' see about the trunk bein' sent down.' "So off he went to see the man who kept the house, while I falls to packin' up the trunk as fast as I could." "Weren't you dreadfully angry at him ?" asked Euphemia, who, having a romantic streak in her own composition, did not sympathize altogether with this heroic remedy for Pomona's disease.
"No, ma'am," said Pomona, "not long.