Half the people think her worldly and ambitious.
Only last night that spiteful old woman, Mrs.Clinton, said to me: 'Your sister is quite spoiled by Washington.

She is more wild for power than any human being I ever saw.' I was dreadfully angry and told her she was quite mistaken--Madeleine was not the least spoiled.

But I couldn't say that she was not fond of power, for she is; but not in the way Mrs.
Clinton meant.

You should have seen her the other evening when Mr.
Ratcliffe said about some matter of public business that he would do whatever she thought right; she spoke up quite sharply for her, with a scornful little laugh, and said that he had better do what he thought right.

He looked for a moment almost angry, and muttered something about women's being incomprehensible.