"Doesn't she owe her rank and her splendor, and the respect that people show to her, to the fortunate circumstance of her birth?
And yet she talks as if she was a red republican.

You yourself heard her say that she was a thorough Radical, and hoped she might live to see the House of Lords abolished.
Oh, I heard her! And what is more, I listened so attentively to such sentiments as these, from a lady with a title, that I can repeat, word for word, what she said next.

"We hav'n't deserved our own titles; we hav'n't earned our own incomes; and we legislate for the country, without having been trusted by the country.

In short, we are a set of impostors, and the time is coming when we shall be found out." Do you believe she really meant that?
All as false as false can be--that's what I say of it." There I stopped, privately admiring my own eloquence.
Quite a mistake on my part; my eloquence had done just what Mrs.Roylake wished me to do.

She wanted an opportunity of dropping Lady Rachel, and taking up Lady Lena, with a producible reason which forbade the imputation of a personal motive on her part.