'The editor said I was to write down turned-up hats,' said Charley. 'I rather like them myself.'
'I hope my new slouch is not an audacious Saracen's head,' said Linda.
'Or mine,' said Katie. 'But you may say what you like about them now; for mine is drowned.'
'Come, girls, there are four more chapters, I see. Let me finish it, and then we can discuss it afterwards.'
"CHAPTER III. — "Having thus described the Lady Crinoline——"
'You haven't described her at all,' said Linda; 'you haven't got beyond her clothes yet.'
'There is nothing beyond them,' said Charley.
'You haven't even described her face,' said Katie; 'you have only said that she had a turned-up nose.'
'There is nothing further that one can say about it,' said Charley.
"Having thus described the Lady Crinoline,' continued Mrs. Woodward, 'it now becomes our duty, as impartial historians, to give some account of Mr. Macassar Jones.