"She was very much honoured, and should be happy in their acquaintance." The toils of the business were over, the sweets began.

They visited in Laura Place, they had the cards of Dowager Viscountess Dalrymple, and the Honourable Miss Carteret, to be arranged wherever they might be most visible: and "Our cousins in Laura Place,"-- "Our cousin, Lady Dalrymple and Miss Carteret," were talked of to everybody.
Anne was ashamed.

Had Lady Dalrymple and her daughter even been very agreeable, she would still have been ashamed of the agitation they created, but they were nothing.

There was no superiority of manner, accomplishment, or understanding.

Lady Dalrymple had acquired the name of "a charming woman," because she had a smile and a civil answer for everybody.