Then he asked Arabella whether she knew the young lord.

She had just met him, she said, and had only asked the question because of the name.

"He is one of my neighbours down here," said Morton;--"but being always away of course I see nothing of him." After that Arabella consented to be taken out on horseback to see a meet of the hounds although she could not hunt.

"We must see what we can do about horses," he said.

She however professed her readiness to go in the carriage if a saddle-horse could not be found.
The dinner party I fear was very dull.