"But I am afraid it is rather partisan." "Anything un-English is bound to be," she retorted.

"I never have liked the English anyway.

The last one I knew was an overseer.

Dad was compelled to discharge him." "One swallow doesn't make a summer." "But that Englishman made lots of trouble--there! And now please don't make me any more absurd than I already am." "I'm trying not to." "Oh, for that matter--" She tossed her head, opened her mouth to complete the retort, then changed her mind.

"I shall go on with my history.