We choose our players turn and turn about.

Mamma has the advantage of me in years.

So mamma chooses first." With a look at her step-daughter--which, being interpreted, meant, "I would send you back to the nursery, miss, if I could!"-- Lady Lundie turned and ran her eye over her guests.

She had evidently made up her mind, beforehand, what player to pick out first.
"I choose Miss Silvester," she said--with a special emphasis laid on the name.
At that there was another parting among the crowd.

To us (who know her), it was Anne who now appeared.