She made all sorts of resolutions about the despised Tyrrel-Rawdons.

She intended to show the proud, indolent world of the English land-aristocracy that Americans, just as well born as themselves, respected business energy and enterprise; and she had other plans and propositions just as interesting and as full of youth's impossible enthusiasm.
In the morning she went to talk the subject over with her grandmother.
The old lady received the news with affected indifference.

She said, "It mattered nothing to her who sat in Rawdon's seat; but she would not hear Mostyn blamed for seeking his right.

Money and sentiment are no kin," she added, "and Fred has no sentiment about Rawdon.

Why should he?
Only last summer Rawdon kept him out of Parliament, and made him spend a lot of money beside.