In general--as a rule."
"I would strongly recommend your obeying her wishes," said Mitchell, with
great earnestness. "There's a time for all things, and, in my opinion,
she's had about all the queer tastes that she can absorb for to-day.
Things being as they are and mainly as they shouldn't be, I cast my vote
in with what looks as if it would soon become the losing side, and vote to
bubble back for all we're worth."
There was a general acquiescence in his view of the case, which led them
all to pile into "The Threshing Machine" with unaffected haste and rush
Aunt Mary bedward as rapidly as was possible considering the hour and the
policemen.
Janice received her mistress with the tender welcome that every prodigal
may count on and was especially expeditious with tea and toast and a robe
de nuit. Aunt Mary sighed luxuriously when she felt herself finally tucked
up.
"After all, Granite," she said dreamily, "there's nothin' like gettin'
stretched out to think it over--is there?"
But Janice was turning out the lights.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN - AUNT MARY ENTHRALLED
Jack's aunt slept long and dreamlessly again. That thrice-blessed sleep
which follows nights abroad in the metropolis.
When, toward four o'clock, Aunt Mary opened her eyes, she was at first
almost as hazy in her conceptions as she had found herself upon the
previous day.
"I feel as if the automobile was runnin' up my back and over my head," she
said, thoughtfully passing her hand along the machine's imaginary course.
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