I tried to make her come with me, telling her that as you were her sister 'twas no matter if she weren't invited; but she said that Mrs.Mason had accepted an invitation to take tea with Mrs.Johnson, and she was going there too." Instantly Lizzie Upton's eyes were fixed upon Ella, who colored scarlet; and quickly changing the conversation, she commenced talking about her adventure of the evening before, and again the "magnificent-looking stranger, with his perfectly splendid eyes," was duly described.
"Oh, yes," said Jenny, who generally managed to talk all the time, whether she was heard or not.

"Yes, Mary told me about him.

He was in her school yesterday, and if I were going to describe George Moreland, I could not do it more accurately than she did, in describing Mr.
Stuart.

You never saw George, did you ?" "No," said Ella pettishly, "but seems to me Mary is dreadful anxious to have folks know that Mr.Stuart visited her school." "No, she isn't," answered Jenny.

"I told her that I rode past her school-house yesterday, and should have called, had I not seen a big man's head protruding above the window sill.