Note 14 — ON EDITING.
Reading edition
The use of the name of an estate in the place of the name of its owner or owners is very common with the territorial class in our countrysides. Thus, people will say, “I have been calling at the Laurels,” or “I dined with the Monkey Tree”; meaning, “I have been calling upon Mrs. So-and-So,” or, “I have been dining with Sir Charles Gibbs.”