CHAPTER IV

Miss Chillingworth was not sure—her knowledge of the ways of the wicked world being uncertain, not to say elementary—if it were proper that Marilla should go motoring alone with a young man who, after all, was a stranger, and whom she had originally met under strange, if perhaps romantic circumstances. But it was of little use to say so; Marilla, in spite of her strict bringing-up under the Dellaby roof at Dulwich, was a young person of character and decision, and Miss Chillingworth had found out during their Conti…