The Motor Maids Across the Continent
Katherine Stokes
Paperback
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, July 20, 2014)
โAt my age, too,โ began Miss Helen Campbell, leaning back in her seat and folding her hands with an expression of resignation. โAt your age, what, dear cousin?โ demanded Wilhelmina Campbell, superintending the strapping on at the back of the car of five extra large suit cases and other paraphernalia for a long trip. โWhy should not things happen at your age as well as at ours? But at your age, what?โ โAt my age to turn emigrant,โ exclaimed the little lady. โAt my age to become a gypsy vagabond. Oh, dear, oh, dear! What would grandpapa have said?โ โHe would have been delighted, I am certain, Cousin Helen,โ answered her young relative, โsince he was a soldier and a jolly old gentleman, too, papa has always said.โ โBut such an up to date gypsy-vagabond-emigrant, Miss Campbell,โ pursued Elinor Butler, โone who rides in a motor car and wears a silk traveling coat and a sky-blue chiffon veil.โ