"
"You don't expect me to agree with you on that point, do you, auntie?"
Louise asked sweetly.
Mrs. Conroth ignored the retort, continuing: "I am not amazed, after
seeing your surroundings at the Silt place, that you should become
familiar with these common longshore characters. But this that I have
just learned--only this forenoon in fact--astonishes me beyond measure;
it does, indeed!"
"Let me be astonished, too, auntie. I love a surprise," drawled her
niece.
"Where were you yesterday?" demanded Aunt Euphemia sharply.
Louise at once thought she knew what was coming. She smiled as she
replied: "Out fishing."
"And with whom, may I ask?"
"With Betty Gallup, Uncle Abram's housekeeper."
"But the man?"
"Oh! Mr. Tapp, you mean? A very pleasant young man, auntie."
"That is what I was told, Louise," her aunt said mournfully. "With
young Tapp. And you have been seen with him frequently. It is being
remarked by the whole colony. Of course, you can mean nothing by this
intimacy. It arises from your thoughtlessness, I presume.
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