"About partners in dancing at least the ladies did and dresses, and different gentlemen, and what this one said and the other one said it wasn't very amusing to me."
Mr. Lindsay laughed. "And the gentlemen, Ellen; how did you like them?"
"I didn't like them particularly, Sir."
"What have you against them, Ellen?"
"I don't wish to say anything against them, Aunt Keith."
"Come, come; speak out."
"I didn't like their talking, Sir, any better than the ladies, and besides that, I don't think they are very polite."
"Why not?" said Mr. Lindsay, highly amused.
"I don't think it was very polite," said Ellen, "for them to sit still on their horses when I went out, and let Brocklesby help me to mount. They took me up at M. Muller's, you know, Sir; M. Muller had been obliged to go out and leave me."
Mr. Lindsay threw a glance at his sister, which she rather resented.