Both Lady Hartletop and Mrs.Grantly, when they saw him, knew very well what he meant.

But that match would not exactly have suited Mrs.Grantly's views.

The Hartletop people were not in her line.

They belonged altogether to another set, being connected, as we have heard before, with the Omnium interest--"those horrid Gatherum people," as Lady Lufton would say to her, raising her hands and eyebrows, and shaking her head.

Lady Lufton probably thought that they ate babies in pies during their midnight orgies at Gatherum Castle; and that widows were kept in cells, and occasionally put on racks for the amusement of the duke's guests.
When the Robarts's party entered the drawing-room the Grantlys were already there, and the archdeacon's voice sounded loud and imposing in Lucy's ears, as she heard him speaking, while she was yet on the threshold of the door.