Hence the fact that you have been chastely occupying separate chambers has nothing to do with the letter of the law that says simply that it is not lawful for an unmarried couple to live under the same unchaperoned roof.
The girls in all other parts of the South may go unchaperoned to balls, but she does not allow her girls to do it.
Being a helpless and unchaperoned young lady," she explained primly, "he is my natural guardian and protector.
Unchaperoned she had travelled from the States to join her father in London, where he was attached to the Embassy, and where she meant to continue her special War work.
Of course she was to come under protection of the captain, to whom the rĂ´le of heavy father to unchaperoned girls is usually relegated; and on arriving at Liverpool the railway journey to Leighton Court would be only a few hours.
Visions of possible anglers and unchaperonedriver flirtations disturbed his mind; but eventually he satisfied himself, by requiring Miss Prosody to be always of the party, who followed with the children and a boatman in a flat-bottomed tub.