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After having regaled herself with a glass of sherry, a biscuit, a piece
of sponge cake, and some fruit, Mrs. Geraldine had descended to the
dining-room to see a new rug, of which Lucy told her. Glancing at the
table, which was glittering with china, and glass, and silver, she began
counting:
"One, two, three, four, five, six places. You surely did not expect
Burton's father?"
Lucy flushed a little, as she replied:
"Oh, no; the sixth place is for Miss McPherson."
"Miss McPherson! What possessed you to invite her? I detest her, with
her sharp tongue and prying ways. Why, she is positively rude at times,
and exasperates me so," Geraldine said, angrily; and her sister
rejoined:
"I know she is peculiar and outspoken, but at heart she is true as
steel, and I thought she would be very lonely taking her Thanksgiving
dinner alone. And then she will be glad to see you and inquire after her
brother's family, whom she knows you met abroad."
"Yes, we spent a week with her brother, the Hon. John McPherson, and his
wife Lady Jane, at the house of Captain Smithers in Middlesex.


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