I will be of age in a few days, and then we'll take John Gilman and go to the Consolidated Bank, and if it suits your convenience to be absent for four or five days at that period, I'll take John Gilman and we'll go together." Eileen was amazed.

The receding color in her cheeks left the rouge on them a ghastly, garish thing.
"Well, I won't do anything of the sort," she said hotly, "and neither will John Gilman." "Unfortunately for you," answered Linda, "John Gilman is my guardian, not yours.

He'll be forced to do what the law says he must, and what common decency tells him he must, no matter what his personal feelings are; and I might as well tell you that your absence has done you no good.

You'd far better have come home, as you agreed to, and gone over the books and made me a decent allowance, because in your absence John came here to ask me where you were, and I know that he was anxious." "He came here!" cried Eileen.
"Why, yes," said Linda.

"Was it anything unusual?
Hasn't he been coming here ever since I can remember?
Evidently you didn't keep him as well posted this time as you usually do.