CHAPTER V.
THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE I (1714) Lady Mary shows an increasing interest in politics--She tries to incite her husband to be ambitious--Montagu not returned to the new Parliament--His lack of energy--Correspondence--The Council of Regency--The King commands Lord Townshend to form a Government--The Cabinet--Lord Halifax, First Lord of the Treasury--Montagu appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury--Correspondence--The unsatisfactory relations between Lady Mary and Montagu.
At the time of the death of Queen Anne Lady Mary began to show an increased interest in polities, at least in so far as the career of Montagu was bound up with it.

She began to try to persuade her husband to be, to some extent at least, ambitious.

It may be that she was not happy at the thought of being married to a man who was regarded as a nonentity.

She was always urging him to put his best foot forward.
Sometimes she wrote to him as to a naughty child.

"I am very much surprised that you do not tell me in your last letter that you have spoke to my Father," she said in August, 1714.