Portia Armstrong attended the moving picture show one evening and said
to her teacher next day:
[Sidenote: Proposes Joy Rides]
“Ben Sawyer and some of the boys sat just behind us girls and said,
‘Say, girls, let’s steal out and take a joy ride like that some night.’”
“O, Portio, what did you let him talk to you for? Never repeat anything
such a boy says. I think it’s ridiculous the way girls and boys talk
nowadays. I simply don’t want to hear of any such foolish going-on.”
Portia took her teacher at her word. She told her nothing of what the
boys said to the girls after that.