They were six, and two carriages would take them: a two-spanner for four, and a one-spanner for two; they could start directly after dinners and get home in time for supper.
Stoller asserted himself to say: "That's all right, then.

I want you to be my guests, and I'll see about the carriages." He turned to Burnamy: "Will you order them ?" "Oh," said the young fellow, with a sort of dryness, "the portier will get them." "I don't understand why General Triscoe was so willing to accept.
Surely, he can't like that man!" said Mrs.March to her husband in their own room.
"Oh, I fancy that wouldn't be essential.

The general seems to me, capable of letting even an enemy serve his turn.

Why didn't you speak, if you didn't want to go ?" "Why didn't you ?" "I wanted to go." "And I knew it wouldn't do to let Miss Triscoe go alone; I could see that she wished to go." "Do you think Burnamy did ?" "He seemed rather indifferent.

And yet he must have realized that he would be with Miss Triscoe the whole afternoon." XXXV.
If Burnamy and Miss Triscoe took the lead in the one-spanner, and the others followed in the two-spanner, it was not from want of politeness on the part of the young people in offering to give up their places to each of their elders in turn.