By his ear she swung him away from Fanchon and faced him toward the lawn.
"You march straight out of here!" she commanded.
Penrod marched.
He was stunned; obeyed automatically, without question, and had very little realization of what was happening to him.

Altogether, and without reason, he was in precisely the condition of an elderly spouse detected in flagrant misbehaviour.

Marjorie, similarly, was in precisely the condition of the party who detects such misbehaviour.

It may be added that she had acted with a promptness, a decision and a disregard of social consequences all to be commended to the attention of ladies in like predicament.
"You ought to be ashamed of yourself!" she raged, when they reached the lawn.

"Aren't you ashamed of yourself ?" "What for ?" he inquired, helplessly.
"You be quiet!" "But what'd _I_ do, Marjorie?
_I_ haven't done anything to you," he pleaded.