"You're going
to stay right here."
"Nonsense, my dear! Why, when I was courting your mother--"
"What has that to do with it?" demanded Sue, very crimson. "Do you mean
to say that someone is courting someone around here?"
"Of course, every man may be mistaken at times."
"Well, take my word for it, you're badly mistaken this time."
"Oh!" said her father, with assumed astonishment. "Am I? Then what is
all this about?"
"And even if they were," continued Susie, a little unsteadily, "they do
it differently from the American way."
"How do they do it, for heaven's sake?"
"Why, dad, how should I know?"
"You seem to have considerable information on the subject."
"I have enough information to know," retorted Sue, with some heat,
"that in Europe, a young man calls upon the head of the family, and not
upon any of its younger female members."
"I have always understood that Europe was behind the times," observed
her father, "but I never suspected it was as bad as that. However, I
take your word for it--I always do, you know. I suppose you and Nell
will have to stay in your rooms."
"Oh, no," said Sue, "we may be present, so long as our chaperon is
there."
"So I'm to do some chaperoning at last, am I?" queried her father. "The
job has ceased to be a sinecure.
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