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And such was Miss Lee 's generalship that she rested content with her success in one direction , and deferred until a more convenient season her further demands . She was a reasonable young woman , and was quite satisfied with accomplishing one thing at a time . Two or three days later Dorothy advanced her second parallel . In the interval they had bathed every morning and had driven to the Point every afternoon , and they had held converse upon the veranda of the hotel every evening until ten o'clock with certain eminently respectable people from Philadelphia , by whom Dorothy was bored , as she did not hesitate to confess , almost to desperation . Further , Mr. Port had given a lunch-party to which these same Philadelphians were invited ; and his niece had informed him , when the festivity was at an end , that if he did anything like that again she certainly would either run away or drown herself . Any trials in this world or any dangers in the next , she declared , were preferable to sitting opposite to such a person as Mrs. Logan Rittenhouse , who talked nothing but uninteresting scandal and crochet , and next to Mr. Pennington Brown , who talked only about peoples ' great-grandfathers and great-aunts . It was with a lively alarm that Mr. Port noted these signs of discontent , together with returning symptoms of the grumpiness which had disturbed his comfort and digestion at Saratoga ; and it was most selfishly in his own self-interest that he tried to think of something that would afford his niece amusement .