What good can they do papa by being down there ?' 'He is wonderfully rich,' said Lady Pomona.
'But I don't suppose he'll give papa his money,' continued Georgiana.
'Of course I don't pretend to understand, but I think there is more fuss about these things than they deserve.

If papa hasn't got money to live at home, why doesn't he go abroad for a year?
The Sidney Beauchamps did that, and the girls had quite a nice time of it in Florence.

It was there that Clara Beauchamp met young Lord Liffey.

I shouldn't at all mind that kind of thing, but I think it quite horrible to have these sort of people brought down upon us at Caversham.

No one knows who they are, or where they came from, or what they'll turn to.' So spoke Georgiana, who among the Longestaffes was supposed to have the strongest head, and certainly the sharpest tongue.
This conversation took place in the drawing-room of the Longestaffes' family town-house in Bruton Street.