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154 this plan once it is made, for, my dear girl, it is much better to go away and leave your hostess regretting you than to stay and make her wish that you had gone. To "welcome the coming and speed the parting guest" is her business, and to go away leaving a pleasant impression behind you is yours.

Now you have started to visit at the house beautiful, and as you go whirling through the country on a fast train you must think over what you are going to do. First of all, you are to be a pleasure and not a trouble to your hostess; your luggage has been checked through, and, like a wise little woman, you will have prepaid for its delivery at the house. Arriving there and being greeted by the various members of the family, you will be taken to the room that is to be yours, and, unless you have a very intimate girl friend there, you will be left alone for a little while so that you may straighten up your belongings, freshen yourself and be ready to meet all the members of the family. I am concluding that you are the girl who has no maid to arrange your affairs and put them in their proper place. Your hostess has very thoughtfully cleared out a cupboard and a chest of drawers for you, and you put away your gowns and underwear with exactly the same care that you would if you