"Won't your people let you take out a car?" he asked.
"Every girl ought to know how to drive, in case of war or the
_chauffeur_ leaving----"
"----or taking a Grandmother for an airing!" I said coldly.
Because I did not care to be criticized when engaged only a few
hours.
However, after we had parted with mutual Protestations, I
felt the desire that every engaged person of the Femanine Sex
always feels, to apear perfect to the one she is engaged to. I
therfore considered whether to ask Smith to teach me to drive
one of our cars or to purchace one of my own, and be responsable
to no one if muddy, or arrested for speeding, or any other
Vicissatude.
On the next day Jane and I looked at automobiles, starting
with ones I could not aford so as to clear the air, as Jane
said. At last we found one I could aford. Also its lining
matched my costume, being tan. It was but six hundred dollars,
having been more but turned in by a lady after three hundred
miles because she was of the kind that never learns to drive but
loses its head during an emergency and forgets how to stop, even
though a Human Life be in its path.
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