Ella replied by a simple affirmative. "Where did you meet him?"
"At my brother's wedding." Ella's manner expressed her wish that no further questions on that subject might be asked. But her superior and better bred pupil paid no regard to that.
"Your brother, Dr. Hudson? Ah, yes! Whom did he marry?"
"A Miss Lee."
"Lee! To what family did she belong? One of any note in the city?"
"I never felt interest enough in the subject to ask," replied Ella, rather coldly. "She was an orphan."
"Then you don't like her very much."
"Don't like her!" Ella's bright eyes were instantly in the face of her questioner. "I could not love my own sister better!"
The young lady felt the rebuke. She would have been as passive to all impressions as marble had she not.
"I suppose you have never met Miss Baldwin?" she said, after a pause.