Those Pallisers are very peculiar, and I doubt whether she ever saw the old duke.

She has no father or mother, and lives when she is at home with a married sister, about seventy years older than herself, Mrs.
Attenbury." "I remember Mrs.Attenbury." "Of course you do.

Who does not?
Adelaide was a child then, I suppose.

Though I don't know why she should have been, as she calls herself one-and-twenty now.

You'll think her pretty.