You must
understand that he is not--er----Well, the Tapps are not of our set,
Louise."
"My goodness, no!" laughed the girl cheerfully. "The Tapps are real
Cape Codders, I believe."
Aunt Euphemia raised her eyebrows and her lorgnette together. "I do
not understand you, I fear. What the Tapps are by blood, I do not
know. But they are not in society at all--not at all!"
"Not in society?" repeated Louise, puzzled indeed.
"Scarcely. Of course, as Mrs. Perriton says, the way the cottagers are
situated here at The Beaches, the Tapps _must_ be treated with a
certain friendliness. That quite impossible 'I. Tapp,' as he
advertises himself, owns all the Point and might easily make it very
disagreeable for the rest of the colony if he so chose."
She stopped because of the expression on her niece's countenance.
"What _do_ you mean?" Louise asked. "Who--who are these Tapps?"
"My dear child! Didn't you know? Was I blaming you for a fault of
which you were not intentionally guilty? See how wrong you are to go
unwarned and unaccompanied to strange places and into strange company.
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