A runaway girl doesn't hurt anybody, and, if you are active enough, you can jump in behind and take the reins and stop her gradually without hurting her feelings, and then, most likely, you can drive her for all the rest of your life." "You ought to have that speech engraved in uncial characters on a slab of stone," said I."Any museum would be glad to have it." I had two reasons besides the one I gave for wishing to leave this hospitable house.

In the first place, Edith Larramie troubled me.

I did not like to have any one know so much about my mental interior--or to think she knew so much.

I did not like to feel that I was being managed.

I had a strong belief that if anybody jumped into a vehicle she was pulling he would find that she was doing her own driving and would allow no interferences.