I might have been Lady Crawley.
How pleased Mrs.Bute would have been: and ma tante if I had taken precedence of her! I might have been somebody's mamma, instead of--O, I tremble, I tremble, when I think how soon we must tell all! Sir Pitt knows I am married, and not knowing to whom, is not very much displeased as yet.

Ma tante is ACTUALLY ANGRY that I should have refused him.

But she is all kindness and graciousness.

She condescends to say I would have made him a good wife; and vows that she will be a mother to your little Rebecca.

She will be shaken when she first hears the news.