"Was it Bolingbroke?"
"No: he landed at Ravensburgh, in Yorkshire."
"Did your hero aim at conquering England?"
"He pretended he was heir to the crown."
"Then I think if you will tell me whether he marched straight to London, or stayed to subdue the towns he passed through, I can say who it was."
"He chose the latter, and thus lost all chance of success; had he gone direct to the metropolis, he might have been victorious."
"The king, whom he wished to supplant," said Willie, "was, I think, dethroned not long afterwards, and succeeded by some one else, better able to conduct the affairs of England."
The subject was now known to all, and the game deferred until the next night.
"We have only two more evenings," remarked Emily, "before my aunt and cousins go, and we have agreed we cannot play at it without them."
"I hope," answered her mother, "they will soon pay us another visit, and we can then resume it, with, I trust, a better acquaintance with past events."