Lord Lufton had evidently admired Miss Grantly very much: indeed, he had said so to his mother half a dozen times; but it may almost be questioned whether the pleasure Lady Lufton derived from this was not more than neutralized by an opinion he once put forward that Griselda Grantly wanted some of the fire of Lucy Robarts.
"Surely, Ludovic, you would never compare the two girls," said Lady Lufton.
"Of course not.

They are the very antipodes to each other.

Miss Grantly would probably be more to my taste; but then I am wise enough to know that it is so because my taste is a bad taste." "I know no man with a more accurate or refined taste in such matters," said Lady Lufton.

Beyond this she did not dare to go.

She knew very well that her strategy would be vain should her son once learn that she had a strategy.