She had been left behind in the bedroom, where she must stay, he told her, until his return.
Everybody seemed glad to see him; but after greeting them all in turn, he drew Violet to a seat a little apart from the others.
Grace followed, of course, keeping close to her father's side.

"Where is Lulu, papa ?" she asked with a look of concern, "Up at the house." "Won't you let her come down here, papa?
She loves so to be close down by the waves." "She may come after a little," he said, "but not just now." Then taking two tiny notes from his pocket: "Here, Gracie," he said, "take this to your Grandma Elsie and this to your Uncle Edward." "Yes, sir; must I wait for an answer ?" "Oh, no," he replied, with a slight smile; "you may come right back to your place by papa's side." Elsie read the little missive handed her at a glance, rose up hastily, and went to the captain with it in her hand, a troubled look on her face.
"My dear captain," she said, in a tone of gentle remonstrance, "why did you do this?
The child's offence against me was not a grave one in my esteem, and I know that to one of her temperament it would be extremely galling to be made to apologize.

I wish you had not required it of her." "I thought it for her good, mother," he answered; "and I think so still; she is so strongly inclined to impertinence and insubordination that I must do all in my power to train her to proper submission to lawful authority and respect for superiors." Edward joined them at that moment.

He looked disturbed and chagrined.
"Really, captain," he said, "I am not at all sure that Lulu has not as much right to an apology from me as I to this from her.

I spoke to her in anger, and with an assumption of authority to which I really had no right, so that there was ample excuse for her not particularly respectful language to me.