I suppose you have always enough for everything." It was well known that the present Mrs.Finn, as Madame Goesler, had been a wealthy woman.
"Indeed, no;--very far from that.

I haven't a shilling." "What has happened ?" asked the Duchess, pretending to be frightened.
"You forget that I've got a husband of my own, and that he has to be consulted." "That must be nonsense.

But don't you think women are fools to marry when they've got anything of their own, and could be their own mistresses?
I couldn't have been.

I was made to marry before I was old enough to assert myself." "And how well they did for you!" "Pas si mal .-- He's Prime Minister, which is a great thing, and I begin to find myself filled to the full with political ambition.
I feel myself to be a Lady Macbeth, prepared for the murder of any Duncan or any Daubeny who may stand in my lord's way.

In the meantime, like Lady Macbeth herself, we must attend to the banqueting.