h-needed suit of clothes. And now?

Adelle, with an unexpected acuteness, felt that Archie even in his
present rehabilitated condition would be an object of suspicion to the
keen eyes of Pussy Comstock, whom she was beginning to find troublesome.
And she felt quite inadequate to explaining Archie plausibly. So it was
decided between the lovers before the gondola returned to the city that
they should meet clandestinely while the party remained in Venice. It
was the family habit to take prolonged siestas after the second
breakfast, when Adelle would be free to slip forth and join Archie in
the cool recesses of a neighboring church. Other opportunity might
arise. Young love is content with little--or thinks it will be. They
parted with a final kiss, and Adelle thoughtfully paid the boatmen when
they landed at the piazzetta.

There followed for one week the most exciting and the most taxing
episode in Adelle's small existence. She never had time for naps or odd
moments of indolent nothings. In spite of the languorous heat, she
became alert and schemed all her waking moments how best to make time
for Archie. After a few days she bribed her maid so that she could get
out of the hotel to a gondola after the others had gone to their rooms
for the night. It was all a piece of pure recklessness, and Adelle was
hardly adept enough to have carried it on long without detection.
Fortunately, Miss Comstock was much occupied with some important English
people, for whose sake she had really dragged the party down to Venice.
And for seven days Adelle spent rapturous hours behind the black
curtains of a gondola, varied by hardly less exciting hours of planning
to bring her joy once more to her lips. Then Miss Comstock's English
friends departed and the family set out for the North. They went by the
International and Archie followed more slowly by the _omnibus_. He
overtook the party at Lucerne, but Lucerne is not as well adapted as
Venice for the shy retreats of love. They were content to return to
Paris, where they imagined their liberty would be less circumscribed....

It was at Lucerne that Adelle's lover demanded rather brusquely why she
was "so mortal scared of the schoolma'am?" Was she not a young woman of
nineteen and of independent means, without the annoying necessity of
consulting her parents in her choice of a lover? This put it into
Adelle's mind that in the last resort she might defy Pussy and have her
precious one all to h