Have you any?"
"I've not, Miss, but I'll get some white yarn from my sister, and
start a shawl or a tippet."
"Yes; do that. Then you just sit there, you know, and knit and
glance around the room now and then, and smile benignly. Can you
smile benignly, Susan?"
Susan tried, and after one or two lessons from Patty, was
pronounced proficient in that art.
"Then, Susan, if there's music, you must listen, and wag your head
in appreciation, so! When we dance, you must look on with interest
and again smile benignly. Not many of the young people will talk
to you, except to be introduced at first, but if they do, answer
them pleasantly, and use your brogue as little as possible. Do you
understand, Susan?"
And as Susan possessed the quick wit and ready adaptability of her
race, she did see; and as she adored her young mistress above any
one on earth, she was only too willing to please her; and, too,
the occasion had its charms for a good-hearted, hard-working
Irishwoman.
She declared her willingness to obey Patty's orders, promised to
keep it all a profound secret, and then went away to her sister's
house until the appointed time.
CHAPTER IV
A PERFECTLY GOOD CHAPERON
It was nearly six o'clock when Patty reached "Red Chimneys.
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