"My goodness! Ellen Montgomery! how on earth did you get here?"
"Do you know her?" asked one of the girls, as the two Ellens went off after "Aunt Sophia."
"Do I know her? Yes just enough exactly. How did she get here?"
"Miss Humphreys brought her."
"Who's Miss Humphreys?"
"Hush!" said Marianne, lowering her tone "that's her brother in the window."
"Whose brother? hers or Miss Humphreys'?"
"Miss Humphreys'. Did you never see her? She is here, or has been here, a great deal of the time. Grandma calls her her fourth daughter; and she is just as much at home as if she was; and she brought her here."
"And she's at home, too, I suppose. Well, it's no business of mine."
"What do you know of her?"