In the first place, Lady Caroline had told him to go.

It was not Lady Caroline who spoke, but a man further down the table.

None of them, at any rate, had spent an afternoon with Lady Caroline.

Lady Caroline spoke in a harsh, grunting voice that few people had ever heard her use.

"She will be delighted to know you think so, Lady Caroline."

Lady Caroline, her questions answered, made leave to excuse herself.

Lady Caroline might have taken it, but Anne was younger.

Lady Caroline had come over earlier that day for a visit and had stayed longer than expected.

"I shouldn't want to be any trouble," said Lady Caroline.

By the end of her life Lady Caroline could wreck any room without effort at record speed.