"Did you obey the first order?"

Lulu was silent for a moment; then as her father was evidently waiting
for an answer, she muttered, "I changed my dress after a while."

"That was not obeying; I told you to do it immediately," he said in a
tone of severity, "What did you do in the mean time?"

"I don't want to tell you," she muttered.

"You must; and you are not to say you don't want to do what I bid you.
What were you doing?"

"Walking round the town."

"Breaking two of your father's commands at once. What next? give me a
full account of the manner in which you spent the day."

"I came in soon and changed my dress; then went to the beach till the
bathing hour; then Betty and I went in together; then we had our dinner
at the hotel and came back to the beach for a little while; then we went
to Sankaty."

"Filling up the whole day with repeated acts of disobedience," he said.

"Papa, you didn't say I mustn't go in to bathe, or that I shouldn't take
a walk."

"I told you to stay at home, and you disobeyed that order again and