"We stayed there late enough last night: papa and I were almost the last to go.

He and your mother and Miss Fanny Minafer got the musicians to play another waltz when everybody else had gone downstairs and the fiddles were being put away in their cases.

Papa danced part of it with Miss Minafer and the rest with your mother.

Miss Minafer's your aunt, isn't she ?" "Yes; she lives with us.

I tease her a good deal." "What about ?" "Oh, anything handy--whatever's easy to tease an old maid about." "Doesn't she mind ?" "She usually has sort of a grouch on me," laughed George.