That wasn't Miss Vanderpoel's eldest sister in that carriage, was it ?" "Miss Vanderpoel's----" Mrs.Brent hesitated.

"Do you mean Lady Anstruthers ?" "I'd forgotten her name.

I know Miss Vanderpoel's eldest sister lives at Stornham--Reuben S.Vanderpoel's daughter." "Lady Anstruthers' younger sister is a Miss Vanderpoel, and she is visiting at Stornham Court now." Mrs.Brent could not help adding, curiously, "Why do you ask ?" "I am going to see her.

I'm an American." Mrs.Brent coughed to cover a slight gasp.

She had heard remarkable things of the democratic customs of America.