There her cleverness prevails, even with the baronet, of whom I have just given Thackeray's portrait.

She keeps his accounts, and writes his letters, and helps him to save money; she reads with the elder sister books they ought not to have read; she flatters the sanctimonious son.

In point of fact, she becomes all in all at Queen's Crawley, so that Sir Pitt himself falls in love with her,--for there is reason to think that Sir Pitt may soon become again a widower.

But there also came down to the baronet's house, on an occasion of general entertaining, Captain Rawdon Crawley.

Of course Becky sets her cap at him, and of course succeeds.