They would not have called it chaperoning, but it is still the rule in many societies.
We shall also be asking health authorities to make provision for male midwives to be chaperoned as necessary.
If there is to be a male midwife, he must be chaperoned.
It really means that we shall be paying twice the sum for a confinement that we paid before male midwives and chaperons were needed.
The other point concerns where we are going to get chaperons from.
There is no doubt that life was a great deal more ordered, discreet and, perhaps, sweeter-smelling in the days of the chaperon.
When they had gone, others appeared and chaperoned me through deep-breathing exercises, to prevent my getting pneumonia after the anæsthetic.
I should like to know the nature of the status of the chaperon.
