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EARLY the next morning-directly after twelve-Miss Pole made her appearance at Miss Matty's. Some very trifling piece of business was alleged as a reason for the call; but there was evidently something behind. At last out it came.
"By the way, you'll think I'm strangely ignorant; but, do you really know, I am puzzled how we ought to address Lady Glenmire. Do you say, ‘Your Ladyship,' where you would say ‘you' to a common person? I have been puzzling all morning; and are we to say ‘My Lady,' instead of ‘Ma'am? ' Now you knew Lady Arley-will you kindly tell me the most correct way of speaking to the peerage?"