She knows nothing of the ancient struggles to attain position and a high place in society.

Those struggles were practically over before she appeared on the scene.
On the occasion of her final home-coming her mother makes great preparations to please her, yet the worry and the anxiety, are revealed in her conversation with her older daughter: 'Oh, Marietta, how _do_ you suppose the house will seem to Lydia after she has seen so much?
I hope she won't be disappointed.

I've done so much to it this last year, perhaps she won't like it.

And oh, I _was_ so tired because we weren't able to get the new sideboard put up in the dining-room yesterday!' 'Really, Mother, you must draw the line about Lydia.

She's only human.