"How was that?"
"I couldn't, Sir. I had a great many other things to do."
"What else had you to do?"
"Different things," said Ellen, hesitating, from the remembrance of her aunt's manner the night before.
"Come, come! answer me."
"I had to sweep and dust," said Ellen, colouring, "and set tables and wash and wipe dishes and churn and spin and "
Ellen heard Lady Keith's look in her, "Could you have conceived it!"
"What shall we do with her?" said Mrs. Lindsay; "send her to school, or keep her at home?"
"Have you never been to school, Ellen?"
"No, Sir; except for a very little while, more than three years ago."