No doubt she was afraid of her.

So much she was forced to admit to herself.

But she resolved at last that she would not let her drive her out of the house.
"Is Mr Bott an admirer of your cousin ?" Mrs Sparkes said that evening to Lady Glencora.
"A very distant one I should think," said Lady Glencora.
"Goodness gracious!" exclaimed an old lady who had been rather awed by Alice's intimacy and cousinship with Lady Glencora; "it's the very last thing I should have dreamt of." "But I didn't dream it, first or last," said Mrs Sparkes.
"Why do you ask ?" said Lady Glencora.
"Don't suppose that I am asking whether Miss Vavasor is an admirer of his," said Mrs Sparkes.

"I have no suspicion of that nature.

I rather think that when he plays Bacchus she plays Ariadne, with full intention of flying from him in earnest." "Is Mr Bott inclined to play Bacchus ?" asked Lady Glencora.
"I rather thought he was this morning.