The officer, perceiving her, came to her assistance and greeted her with effusion.
The Republican Idea in practice.
"Oh," said the lady, who was feeling indignant, "I thought maybe you had left your glasses at home." "I am sorry," said the officer, "but it is impossible." "What's impossible ?" demanded the lady.
"That I can be seen speaking to you," declared the officer, "while you are in company with that--that person." "What person ?" She thought maybe he was alluding to the lady in the sledge.

The chaperon was not showy, but, what is better, she was good.
And, anyhow, it was the best the girls had been able to do.

So far as they were concerned, they had no use for a chaperon.

The idea had been a thoughtful concession to European prejudice.
"The person in knickerbockers," explained the officer.
"Oh, _that_," exclaimed the lady, relieved: "he just came up and made himself agreeable while we were putting on our skates.

We have met him somewhere, but I can't exactly fix him for the moment." "You have met him possibly at Wiesman's, in the Pragerstrasse: he is one of the attendants there," said the officer.
The American girl is Republican in her ideas, but she draws the line at hairdressers.