"Hush! Such a feeling is shameful. What do you wish instead of Campbelton?"
The courage of the desperate possessed Christina and she answered: "I should like to travel. I want to see Edinburgh and London and Paris like other girls whose families have money, and Isabel feels as badly at our restrictions as I do."
"What do you say, mother? Will you go with the girls to Edinburgh and London? Paris is out of the question. I will pay all expenses."
"I will do nothing of the kind. I am going to Campbelton. I suppose the girls can go by themselves."
"You know better, mother."
"English girls go all over the world by themselves, and some kinds of Scotch girls are beginning to think mothers an unnecessary institution."
Robert looked at Isabel, and she said: "We might have a courier. I mean a lady courier."
"I will not permit my daughters to go stravaging round the world with any strange woman. Robert, I think you have behaved most imprudently to propose any such thing."
"In your company, mother, was my suggestion. I do think an entire change of people and surroundings would do both you and my sisters a great deal of good."
"Changes are plentiful; too many are now in progress."