Either she must have had some disturbing experience, or Copsley was dear for a Redworth reason, thought the anxious peruser; musing, dreaming, putting together divers shreds of correspondence and testing them with her intimate knowledge of Diana's character, Lady Dunstane conceived that the unprotected beautiful girl had suffered a persecution, it might be an insult.

She spelt over the names of the guests at the houses.

Lord Wroxeter was of evil report: Captain Rampan, a Turf captain, had the like notoriety.

And it is impossible in a great house for the hostess to spread her aegis to cover every dame and damsel present.

She has to depend on the women being discreet, the men civilized.
'How brutal men can be!' was one of Diana's incidental remarks, in a subsequent letter, relating simply to masculine habits.