She stopped as suddenly, kissed her mother and father, and went upstairs.

"I'm afraid you've hurt Her feelings, Leslie," said Mrs.Bell, when she had well gone.
But Elfrida's feelings had not been hurt, though one might say that the evening left her sense of humor rather sore.

At that moment she was dallying with the temptation to describe the whole scene in a letter to a valued friend in Philadelphia, who would have appreciated it with mirth.
In the end she did not write.

It would have been too humiliating..