These fashionable young ladies could not possibly even go into the hayfield because the sun would spoil their complexion, they refresh themselves with aerated waters instead.

They could not possibly enter the dairy because it smells so nasty.

They would not know their father's teams if they met them on the road.

As for speaking to the workpeople--the idea would be too absurd! Once on a time a lift in the waggon just across the wet turf to the macadamised road--if it chanced to be going that way--would have been looked upon as a fortunate thing.

The Misses -- -- would indeed stare if one of their papa's carters touched his hat and suggested that they should get up.