"Oh yes,—no doubt," said Silverbridge awkwardly. Then Mr. Boncassen continued his discourse with the gentlemen around him. Upon this our friend turned to the young lady. "Have you been long in England, Miss Boncassen?"
"Long enough to have heard about you and your father," she said, speaking with no slightest twang.
"I hope you have not heard any evil of me."
"Well!"
"I'm sure you can't have heard much good."
"I know you didn't win the Derby."
"You've been long enough to hear that?"
"Do you suppose we don't interest ourselves about the Derby in New York? Why, when we arrived at Queenstown I was leaning over the taffrail so that I might ask the first man on board the tender whether the Prime Minister had won."
"And he said he hadn't."
"I can't conceive why you of all men should call your horse by such a name. If my father had been President of the United States, I don't think I'd call a horse President."