"Why?" said the minister. He has sandy hair and very round gray eyes, and looks like a football player.
"Oh, I don't know," said my sister; "it's always interesting, isn't it, to find that people are related?"
"Every one must have some relations," said Mr. Macorquodale; "and if my choice had been given me, I do not think I should have chosen those five gurrls."
"We like them so much," Palestrina said, smiling.
"Is that the truth?" said Mr. Macorquodale; and she replied firmly that it was.
"Um umph!" he said, as though considering a perfectly new problem, and then added: "Well, each man to his taste. How many of them have got husbands?"
I replied that Kate was married and Gracie engaged.
"Gracie?" said the minister simply. "Was that the one with a nose like a scone?"
We considered Grade's nose silently for a moment, and then admitted that perhaps the simile was not unjust.
"How did she get him?" said the minister presently.