Hysterics were not in her family.
She did wrong to let that fellow Morsfield accompany her.

Possibly he had come across her on the road, and she could not shake him off.
Judging by all he knew of her, the earl believed she would not have brought the fellow into the grounds of Steignton of her free will.

She had always a particular regard for decency.
According to the rumour, Morsfield and the woman Pagnell were very thick together.

He barked over London of his being a bitten dog.

He was near to the mad dog's fate, as soon as a convenient apology for stopping his career could be invented.
The thinking of the lesson to Morsfield on the one hand, and of the slow-and-sure postillion Joshua Abriett on the other, lulled Lord Ormont to a short repose in his desolate house.