They were good-natured, plain, unattractive girls, who spoke of her to her face as one who could easily do anything to which she might put her hand.
Lady Fawn did really love her.

Lord Fawn, the eldest son, a young man of about thirty-five, a Peer of Parliament and an Under-Secretary of State,--very prudent and very diligent,--of whom his mother and sisters stood in great awe, consulted her frequently and made no secret of his friendship.

The mother knew her awful son well, and was afraid of nothing wrong in that direction.

Lord Fawn had suffered a disappointment in love, but he had consoled himself with blue-books, and mastered his passion by incessant attendance at the India Board.
The lady he had loved had been rich, and Lord Fawn was poor; but nevertheless he had mastered his passion.

There was no fear that his feelings towards the governess would become too warm;--nor was it likely that Miss Morris should encounter danger in regard to him.