'You said something about presenting me, and then leaving me in Lady Kirkbank's care for the season.

I should not like that at all.

I want you to go everywhere with me, to teach me all the mysteries of the great world.

You have always promised me that it should be so.' 'And I have always intended that it should be so.

I hope that it will be so,' answered her grandmother, with a sigh; 'but I am an old woman, Lesbia, and I am rooted to this place.' 'But why should you be rooted here?
What charm can keep you here, when you are so fitted to shine in society?
You are old in nothing but years, and not even old in years in comparison with women whom we hear of, going everywhere and mixing in every fashionable amusement.