"
"You did."
"What! has she broken all bounds, defied all authority, and gone
utterly wild in her rebellion?"
Mrs. Whately made a gesture of half irritable protest. Meantime,
Mrs. Baron, hearing her husband's voice, came out and exclaimed, "Is
that Louise and the Yankee yonder going off alone?"
"They are not 'going off.' You and brother may join them if you
wish. They simply intend to watch the people at the quarters a
little while, and I will wait here for them."
"Sarah Whately!" gasped Mrs. Baron, "can you mean to say that you
have permitted our ward to do such an indelicate thing? She has
never been permitted to go out alone in the evening with any young
man, and the idea that she should begin with a Yankee!"
"She is not alone. She is always within call and most of the time in
sight. I will make one more effort to bring you both to reason,"
added Mrs. Whately, warmly, "and then, if we continue to differ so
radically, I will return home in the morning, after giving Louise to
understand that she can always find a refuge with me if it is
necessary.
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