And although he is a great nobleman, he is not to presume to behave any longer, my dear, as if your family had no claim on his consideration.

My husband, Alfred Pagnell, would have laid that before him pretty quick.

You are the child of the Farrells and the Solers, both old families; on your father's side you are linked with the oldest nobility in Europe.

It flushes one to think of it! Your grandmother, marrying Captain Algernon Farrell, was the legitimate daughter of a Grandee of Spain; as I have told Lord Ormont often, and I defy him to equal that for a romantic marriage in the annals of his house, or boast of bluer blood.

Again, the Solers--" "We take the Solers for granted, aunty, good night." "Commoners, if you like; but established since the Conquest.