When we were ready to leave the peristyle for the carriage, I observed
that Eunane alone was still unveiled, while the others wore their
cloaks of down and the thick veils, without which no lady may present
herself to the public eye.
"'Thieving time is woman's crime,'" I said, quoting a domestic
proverb. "In another household you would; be left behind."
"Of course," she replied, such summary discipline seeming to her as
appropriate as to an European child. "I don't like always to deserve
the vine and receive the nuts."
"You must take which _I_ like," I retorted, laughing. Satisfied or
silenced, she hastened to dress, and enjoyed with unalloyed delight
the unusual pleasure of inspecting dresses and jewellery, and making
more purchases in a day than she had expected to be able to do in two
years. But she and her companions acted with more consideration than
ladies permitted to visit the shops of Europe show for their masculine
escort. Eive alone, on this as on other occasions, availed herself
thoroughly of those privileges of childhood which I had always
extended to her.
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