CHAPTER XXXV

TRAVELLING

The first duty in travelling is to be well-behaved and quietly dressed. Well-bred people are careful never to do anything which attracts attention in public. They are not loud of voice or free in gesture. People who assume an air of importance or assertive independence, or who are exacting and fault-finding when in hotels and imagine that they are gaining the good opinion of others, may be critically judged and perhaps ridiculted by those whom they wish to impress.

Newly married people who are well-bred are particular not to make themselves conspicuous by demonstrative attentions to each other.

Women travel about much more independently in these days than some years ago, and a quiet, dignified manner will always command respect, while tact, common-sense and good temper are absolute necessities in travelling. Young unmarried women or young girls do not travel about alone or go to hotels without the protection of an older woman whose knowledge of the world will save them from annoyance and adverse criticism.