Don't you fuss over what's none of your business, my dear
girl; just trot along upstairs and dress dolly, and when she's dressed
we'll take her off your hands."
Jack appeared unduly quiet.
"Do you think it is going to storm?" he asked Mitchell. Mitchell was
scraping his saucer with the thrift that thrives north of the Firth of
Forth and hatches yachts on the west shores of the Atlantic.
"I don't think at all during vacation," he said mildly. "I repose and reap
'Oh's'--from other people."
"If there was any chance of a storm----?" said the nephew, thoughtfully.
"Fiddle-dee-dee," said Burnett impatiently, "what do you think yachts are
for, anyhow? To let alone?" He looked at the maid as he spoke and pointed
significantly to the door. She went out at once and returned upstairs to
her mistress whom she found quite restless to "get-a-goin'" as she
expressed it.
The boxes filled with yesterday's purchases were brought out at once and
Janice proceeded to rubber-sole and blue-serge Aunt Mary. The latter
regarded every step of the performance in the huge three-fold cheval glass
which had been wont to tell Mrs. Rosscott things that every woman longs to
know.
When her toilette was complete it must be admitted that as a yachtswoman
Aunt Mary fairly outshone her automobile portrait. She surveyed herself
long and carefully.
"I expect it'll be quite an experience," she said with many new wrinkles
of anticipation.
"Yes," said Janice, with a glance at the fluttering window curtains, "I
expect it will be.
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