With all Emma's estimable qualities, she is the one person I know whom I would not trust to deliver a message.

I beg your pardon, Mrs.Elwood, I didn't mean that you were in any sense to blame.

We ought to have warned you, only Emma is such a splendid girl that one hates to mention a silly little thing like that.

Just forget that I said it, will you ?" Mrs.Elwood smiled.

"I quite understand, Miss Briggs," she said gravely.
"The message Miss Harlowe left with me was this: 'If the girls ask where we have gone, tell them that we received a telegram and had to go to the station.