...e more parties she gives the more she may; that she never saw such unreasonable, ill-bred people as those Americans, etc., etc. It was not easy to stop her. But the embarrassment was soon apparent. Lady Downshire , who was a little formal, became very stiff and red, and her daughters, the Ladies Hill, who were very frolicsome, found it hard to stifle their laughter with their handkerchiefs. At last Lady Morn...