She felt that in this granddaughter, rather than in the good Agatha, the patrician spirit was housed.

There were points to Agatha, earnestness and high principle; but something morally narrow and over-Anglican slightly offended the practical, this-worldly temper of Lady Casterley.

It was a weakness, and she disliked weakness.

Barbara would never be squeamish over moral questions or matters such as were not really, essential to aristocracy.

She might, indeed, err too much the other way from sheer high spirits.