Add to these hostile members of the family another offended relative not mentioned in the 'Peerage,' a young lady--' A sudden outburst of protest in more than one part of the room stopped the coming disclosure, and released the Doctor from further persecution.
'Don't mention the poor girl's name; it's too bad to make a joke of that part of the business; she has behaved nobly under shameful provocation; there is but one excuse for Montbarry--he is either a madman or a fool.' In these terms the protest expressed itself on all sides.

Speaking confidentially to his next neighbour, the Doctor discovered that the lady referred to was already known to him (through the Countess's confession) as the lady deserted by Lord Montbarry.

Her name was Agnes Lockwood.

She was described as being the superior of the Countess in personal attraction, and as being also by some years the younger woman of the two.

Making all allowance for the follies that men committed every day in their relations with women, Montbarry's delusion was still the most monstrous delusion on record.