If he had not insulted you he wouldn't have gotten into any difficulty." "It seems too bad, just the same." "It's annoying; that's all," Dave assured her.

"If I had to do the same thing over again, for the same reason, I'd do it cheerfully." Mrs.Meade heard of it all, from her daughter.

Without saying a word as to her intentions the mother herself wrote a letter to the Secretary of the Navy.

Mrs.Meade set forth the persistent fashion in which Ardmore had sought to force his attentions upon Belle, to the latter's great annoyance.

Mrs.Meade's letter declared that Darrin had taken the only possible means of saving Belle from future annoyance.