If she had been his sister Emily she would have fared ill at the moment, for his villainous temper would have got the better of him.
"I 'guess' that I may be congratulated too," he sneered.
"If I was going to be anybody's sister Emily," said Betty, excited a little by the sense of the fray, "I shouldn't want to be yours." "Now Betty, don't be hateful," interposed Rosalie, laughing, and her laugh was nervous.

"There's Mina Thalberg coming up the front steps.

Go and meet her." Rosalie, poor girl, always found herself nervous when Sir Nigel and Betty were in the room together.

She instinctively recognised their antagonism and was afraid Betty would do something an English baronet would think vulgar.

Her simple brain could not have explained to her why it was that she knew Sir Nigel often thought New Yorkers vulgar.