"While you loyal Sempers were out on the lawn this afternoon, stringing lanterns, I was shut up in a third-story room peering owlishly down at you through the shutters.

I arrived here this morning, about an hour before the rest of you.

Kind and hospitable hostess that she seems to be, I grieve to relate that I had hardly paid my respects to Mrs.Briggs when J.Elfreda shut me up in that same third-story chamber with my breakfast and left me to pine while she went gayly gallivanting down to the train to meet you.

When I have a little time I shall write a book and entitle it, 'Locked Up for the Day; or All in the Name of Friendship.'" Emma beamed languishingly upon her listeners in order better to impress them with her unfaltering loyalty to their interests.

"In order to clear my jailer of any unjust aspersions which unkind persons may cast upon her, I might also add that she brought me some luncheon.