You may go to the Duke of Omnium if that suits you better." "Fanny, come away," said Lady Meredith.

"Why should you try to anger my mother ?" "I don't want to anger her; but I won't hear him abused in that way without speaking up for him.

If I don't defend him, who will?
Lady Lufton has said terrible things about him; and they are not true." "Oh, Fanny!" said Justinia.
"Very well, very well!" said Lady Lufton.

"This is the sort of return that one gets." "I don't know what you mean by return, Lady Lufton: but would you wish me to stand by quietly and hear such things said of my husband?
He does not live with such people as you have named.

He does not neglect his duties.