There was no Lady Grex alive, but there lived with the Earl a certain elderly lady, reported to be in some distant way a cousin of the family, named Miss Cassewary, who, in the matter of looking after Lady Mab, did what was supposed to be absolutely necessary.

She now entered the room with her bonnet on, having just returned from church.

"What was the text ?" asked Lady Mab at once.
"If you had gone to church, as you ought to have done, my dear, you would have heard it." "But as I didn't ?" "I don't think the text alone will do you any good." "And probably you forget it." "No, I don't, my dear.

How do you do, Lord Silverbridge ?" "He is a Conservative, Miss Cass." "Of course he is.

I am quite sure that a young nobleman of so much taste and intellect would take the better side." "You forget that all you are saying is against my father and my family, Miss Cassewary." "I dare say it was different when your father was a young man.
And your father, too, was, not very long since, at the head of a government which contained many Conservatives.