'I never asked you, Lady Ogram!'-- It was a toss up whether she would turn me out of the house or admire my courage: she is capable of one or the other.
Her next question was, where did I live?
I told her I lodged with my aunt, Mrs.Shufflebotham; and her face went black.

Mrs.Shufflebotham, I have been told, was somehow the cause of a quarrel between my father and Lady Ogram.

That was nothing to me.

My aunt is a kind and very honest woman, and I wasn't going to disown her.

Of course I had done the wise, as well as the self-respecting, thing; I soon saw that Lady Ogram thought all the better of me because I was not exactly a snob." "This is the first I have heard of your aunt," remarked Dyce.
"Is it?
Didn't your father let you know of the shocking revelation I made to him the other day ?" "He told me nothing at all." Constance reflected.
"Probably he thought it too painful.