I don't suppose he'll venture to suggest such a thing." And then again she grumbled.

"It's all very well being in the Cabinet--!" "Is Lord Fawn in the Cabinet ?" asked Miss Macnulty, who in such matters was not altogether ignorant.
"Of course he is," said Lizzie, with an angry gesture.

It may seem unjust to accuse her of being stupidly unacquainted with circumstances, and a liar at the same time; but she was both.

She said that Lord Fawn was in the Cabinet because she had heard some one speak of him as not being a Cabinet Minister, and in so speaking appear to slight his political position.

Lizzie did not know how much her companion knew, and Miss Macnulty did not comprehend the depth of the ignorance of her patroness.