"Go on, and tell me all you can remember."
"All! that would be a great deal, Sir."
"Go on till I tell you to stop."
Ellen gave him a good part of the battle, with the introduction to it.
"You have a good memory, Ellen," he said, looking pleased.
"Because I like it, Sir; that makes it easy to remember. I like the Scots people."
"Do you?" said Mr. Lindsay much gratified. "I did not know you liked anything on this side of the water. Why do you like them?"
"Because they never would be conquered by the English."
"So," said Mr. Lindsay, half-amused and half-disappointed, "the long and the short of it is, you like them because they fought the enemies you were so eager to have a blow at."
"Oh no, Sir," said Ellen, laughing, "I do not mean that at all; the French were England's enemies too, and helped us besides; but I like the Scots a great deal better than the French. I like them because they would be free."