“But I should not be willing to have you go alone, Maud,” said her father.
“I don’t mean to go alone. Harry’ll go with me, and protect me, only I don’t think I shall need any protection; but it’ll be pleasant to have him go.”
“If he is willing to go, I have no objection.”
“You’ll come with me, Harry, won’t you?” asked Maud.
“I shall be very happy to accompany you, Miss—”
Here Maud held up her finger warningly.
“I mean Maud,” said our hero.
“Then that’s settled. We’ll have lots of fun.”
“I am afraid that is not quite the way young ladies ought to talk,” said her father. “What would your governess say?”
“Poor, dear old lady! she’d be shocked, I know she would. She wanted me to be as prim and stupid as herself. But I can’t be, papa. It is not in me.”