"I heard nothing, Lady Mab, and know nothing."
"You know that your awful governor won't let him stay any longer in Carlton Terrace?"
"Yes, I know that."
"And why not?"
"Would Lord Grex allow Percival to have his friends living here?" Earl Grex was Lady Mabel's father, Lord Percival was the Earl's son;—and the Earl lived in Belgrave Square. All these are little bits of the horse.
"Certainly not. In the first place, I am here."
"That makes a difference, certainly."
"Of course it makes a difference. They would be wanting to make love to me."
"No doubt. I should, I know."
"And therefore it wouldn't do for you to live here; and then papa is living here himself. And then the permission never has been given. I suppose Frank did not go there at first without the Duke knowing it."