The little Queen domineered over her little dominion, and the Princes her sons were only her first subjects.

Ere long she discontinued her husband's name of Warrington and went by the name of Madam Esmond in the country.

Her family pretensions were known there.

She had no objection to talk of the Marquis's title which King James had given to her father and grandfather.

Her papa's enormous magnanimity might induce him to give up his titles and rank to the younger branch of the family, and to her half-brother, my Lord Castlewood and his children; but she and her sons were of the elder branch of the Esmonds, and she expected that they should be treated accordingly.