Their Chaperoned Honeymoon

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Mothers-in-law are the dread of the newly married. One reason that Daisy Durham accepted Jack Shafer was that he was an orphan and no mother-in-law threatened to share her rule. But Jack has an aunt who has been more than a mother to him and she derides that the two young people were not to be trusted gallivanting about the country all alone. By explaining to Daisy that Jack insisted, she silences objection and then she tells Jack that Daisy is afraid and wants a chaperone. Jack says something that is not "yes" but all the same Aunt Emaline rides to the station in the bridal coach and assumes personal conduct of the honeymoon by tipping the obsequious porter a penny when Jack is happy enough to give the man a dollar. Arrived at the journey's end Jack and Daisy seek to run away from Aunt Emaline for each has found that the other does not want her along. But they can't lose Auntie. They run away and head for home, but Daisy drops her purse and in stopping to get it Jack is left behind and takes a train on another road that makes a little better time and gets him to the city at the same hour. Aunt Emaline is on the train, too, though Jack does not see her. The result is that they all reach the Sharer's new home about the same time. Daisy and Jack see Aunt Emaline coming and run into the house, locking all the doors. Aunt Emaline begins to have a doubt in her mind as to whether she really is welcome and this doubt becomes a certainty when Jack pours a couple of buckets of water over her from an upper window.