No person who had a natural interest in the Princess could observe without uneasiness the strange infatuation which made her the slave of an imperious and reckless termagant.

This the Countess well knew.

In her view the Royal Family and the family of Hyde, however they might differ as to other matters, were leagued against her; and she detested them all, James, William and Mary, Clarendon and Rochester.

Now was the time to wreak the accumulated spite of years.

It was not enough to obtain a great, a regal, revenue for Anne.