"But you've got to be Marquis of Kingsbury, and Llwddythlw has got to be Duke of Merioneth. He never forgets it for a moment."
"What a nuisance for him,—and for you."
"Why should it be a nuisance for me? Cannot a woman understand her duties as well as a man?"
"Quite so, if she knows how to get a glimpse at them."
"I do," said Lady Amaldina, earnestly. "I am always getting glimpses at them. I am quite aware of the functions which it will become me to perform when I am Llwddythlw's wife."
"Mother of his children?"
"I didn't mean that at all, Hampstead. That's all in the hands of the Almighty. But in becoming the future Duchess of Merioneth—"
"That's in the hands of the Almighty, too, isn't it?"
"No; yes. Of course everything is in God's hands."
"The children, the dukedom, and all the estates."