She laid her glasses down on the book she had been reading and looked at them in amazement tinctured with something else . But she shook hands amiably with Mr. Meredith and he sat down and talked to her , while Rosemary hunted out his book . Ellen West was ten years older than Rosemary , and so different from her that it was hard to believe they were sisters . She was dark and massive , with black hair , thick , black eyebrows and eyes of the clear , slaty blue of the gulf water in a north wind . She had a rather stern , forbidding look , but she was in reality very jolly , with a hearty , gurgling laugh and a deep , mellow , pleasant voice with a suggestion of masculinity about it . She had once remarked to Rosemary that she would really like to have a talk with that Presbyterian minister at the Glen , to see if he could find a word to say to a woman when he was cornered . She had her chance now and she tackled him on world politics . Miss Ellen , who was a great reader , had been devouring a book on the Kaiser of Germany , and she demanded Mr. Meredith 's opinion of him . `` A dangerous man , '' was his answer . `` I believe you ! '' Miss Ellen nodded . `` Mark my words , Mr. Meredith , that man is going to fight somebody yet . He 's ACHING to . He is going to set the world on fire . '' `` If you mean that he will wantonly precipitate a great war I hardly think so , '' said Mr. Meredith . `` The day has gone by for that sort of thing . '' `` Bless you , it has n't , '' rumbled Ellen . `` The day never goes by for men and nations to make asses of themselves and take to the fists . The millenniun is n't THAT near , Mr. Meredith , and YOU do n't think it is any more than I do . As for this Kaiser , mark my words , he is going to make a heap of trouble '' -- and Miss Ellen prodded her book emphatically with her long finger .
`` Yes , if he is n't nipped in the bud he 's going XXXXX make trouble .
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