"The girls seem to have the usual American freedom." "Perhaps they are therefore the less likely to give it up to the first man who asks them.

But the Spanish duenna still survives in the family--the more awful because invisible.

It's a mysterious fact that as soon as a fellow becomes particularly attached to any one--except Maruja--he receives some intimation from Pereo." "What! the butler?
That Indian-looking fellow?
A servant ?" "Pardon me--the mayordomo.

The old confidential servitor who stands in loco parentis.

No one knows what he says.