She has a right to be consulted--in courtesy, if not in law.

Would you like to do it ?" Arnold's face fell.

He looked at Sir Patrick in silent dismay.
"What! you can't even speak to such a perfectly pliable person as Lady Lundie?
You may have been a very useful fellow at sea.

A more helpless young man I never met with on shore.

Get out with you into the garden among the other sparrows! Somebody must confront her ladyship.