"It was a very harmless letter——" she began in self-justification.
"Harmless!" blazed Miss Kingsley. "If this is your idea of correspondence, I'm disgusted with you. I call it most unmaidenly!"
"I don't know what modern girls are coming to!" echoed Miss Janet. "In my young days they held very different standards."
"It will be my duty," continued Miss Kingsley grimly, "to inform your mother of this disgraceful correspondence."
"But Mother knows!" gasped Lorraine.
"She knows?"
"Yes, she saw me write the letter."
"Did she read it?"
"No, she didn't ask to."
"Is she aware what you wrote in it?"