Hanbury Court was hers by right.
She had married Lord Ludlow, and had lived for many years at his various seats, and away from her ancestral home.

She had lost all her children but one, and most of them had died at these houses of Lord Ludlow's; and, I dare say, that gave my lady a distaste to the places, and a longing to come back to Hanbury Court, where she had been so happy as a girl.

I imagine her girlhood had been the happiest time of her life; for, now I think of it, most of her opinions, when I knew her in later life, were singular enough then, but had been universally prevalent fifty years before.

For instance, while I lived at Hanbury Court, the cry for education was beginning to come up: Mr.Raikes had set up his Sunday Schools; and some clergymen were all for teaching writing and arithmetic, as well as reading.

My lady would have none of this; it was levelling and revolutionary, she said.