[Maybe this is one of those you-had-to-be-there things.]

But what use, specifically! We will never know! Because you have hit upon it: unfortunately is certain the word to be used here. It was unfortunate to be chased so prematurely from our study. A few sketches and samplings only, and then it was militant force that drove us out. We scarcely escaped with our lives. Freddie had an eyebrow burned. For weeks, she had but one eyebrow. It caught on as a fashion, of course, but her face grew cold on one side and she took a little ill.

And it was as I was helping Jeannot to flee that the curse was nearly put upon me: the curse of temperament.