"The girl has been educated at her expense.

Yes, it's a pretty thing.

I only hope it won't become a blue-stocking." "I must positively know her," said the lady.

"She interests me." "You make me jealous," returned the great person, with playful gallantry.
Lady Agatha had been a peeress in her own right since she had attained the tender age of two years.

Her father and mother had died too early for her to miss them, and she had shown from her childhood a capacity to think for herself, which nurses and governesses and all such persons looked on as absolutely shocking.