His parents became reconciled to his 'tart'ness and boasted about him instead, but his two elder sisters, unmarried, grew jealous of his fame. As far as I could judge from a limited squint at the leading-sires tables and the breeding notes section of the South African Horse and Hound, all of them were of impeccable pedigree, and certainly, from the amounts she had laid out, Nerissa's sister Portia had bought no bargains!