Besides, if we go int together, we shall be the wholetalk of the Country —"

"To me replied Kitty, that would certainly be a most powerful inducement; but I scarcely knowwhether my Aunt would consider it as such –. Wo::men at her time of life, have odd ideas of propriety youknow."

"Which is the very thing that you ought to break them of; and why should you object to entering a room with me where all our relations are, when you have done me the honour to admit me with::out any chaprone into your Carriage? Do not youthink your Aunt will be as much offended withyou for one, as for the other of these mighty crimes?"

"Why really said Catherine, I do not know but that she may; however, it is no reason thatI should offend against Decorum a second time,because I have already done it once."

"On the contrary, that is the very reason whichmakes it impoſsible for you to prevent it, since