When he had finished, he waited anxiously for what Joan would say.
"Then you don't like the way I've been managing the house ?" was her first objection.

And next, brushing his attempted explanations aside, "One of two things would happen.

Either I should cancel our partnership agreement and go away, leaving you to get another chaperone to chaperone your chaperone; or else I'd take the old hen out in the whale-boat and drown her.

Do you imagine for one moment that I sailed my schooner down here to this raw edge of the earth in order to put myself under a chaperone ?" "But really.

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