Sir John has English papers to read, and Miss Costello and I are going to my room to have a chat.' So she took me off to her dressing-room, and we were by ourselves there for quite an hour." "In which time, I suppose, you talked about everything in heaven and earth." "I don't know.

No, indeed; I believe we talked most about Maurice." "He is a favourite of hers." "She says she liked him from the first.

She is so funny in her way of describing things.

She said, 'We English are horribly benighted with regard to you colonists; and my notions of geography are elementary.
When grandpapa told me he had sent for his heir from Canada, I went to Sir John and asked him where Canada was.

He got a big map and began to show me; but all I could understand was, that it was in North America.
I saw an American once.