“And so are you,” she replied with a laugh.
“I wish I were older,” he said. “If I were older, we might be betrothed, might we not?”
“I don’t think age matters,” said Lady Georgina, “we can be betrothed if you like.”
“Do you mean it really?”
Murray’s face glowed with delight.
“It is really nice to be engaged,” he said, after a pause, “and you are a tall lady. I always said I would have a tall lady to be my wife, for then she might become something like Aunt Nancy. Come on, won’t you? Don’t let us waste lose a minute of this dance.”
Lady Georgina stepped into the middle of the room, and she and Murray danced together to the amusement of many people who watched them. As they approached the other end of the ball-room, they suddenly came plump up against Hester Winsome. She was passing through the room with a tray of glasses in her hands. Lady Georgina’s dislike to this girl was increasing each moment. She stopped now to reprimand her.
“What are you doing here?” she said. “Do you know that it is very wrong of you to bring glasses into the ball-room? We might have knocked them all over.”
“What are you doing here? Do you know it is very wrong of you to bring glasses into the ball-room?”—[Page 211.]