Her mother thought she ought not to go, but her father said there was no harm in it.
"If she does," said Mrs.Chipperton, "she'll get herself into some sort of a predicament before she comes back." I found that in such a case as this Mrs.Chipperton was generally right.
FOOTNOTES: [B] "_Voyez-vous cet homme et ces deux femmes cela ?_"-- Do you see that man and those two women there?
[C] "_Bien donc, la petite femme n'est pas la femme du homme.

La autre femme est sa femme._"-- Well, then, the little woman is not the wife of the man.

The other woman is his wife.

[Of course, the French in this, and the preceding, foot-note is Corny's .-- THE AUTHOR.].