Ella actually smiled slightly. She let her eyes wander over the gentlemen in the room. Most of them were too old or too boring to catch her attention.
"If only I could marry one of your brothers, then we could be sisters and we would never have to miss one another," she said with a little giggle. The idea was hilarious to her. Certainly the Hurst boys were good looking, but the elder two were terribly droll, and Crispin was just a child. Ella sighed, rather contentedly, feeling rather comfortable suddenly from the wine she'd drunk.