'Lady Exeter will place little reliance on any representations you may

make, Madam,' he said, giving particular significance to his words,
'except so far as they concern herself, and then she will take care to
refute them
'Lady Exeter will place little reliance on any representations you may
make, Madam,' he said, giving particular significance to his words,
'except so far as they concern herself, and then she will take care to
refute them. As to the circumstance of Gillian Greenford visiting me,
fainting in my arms (from excess of timidity, poor girl!) and being
discovered by you and Lady Roos in that position, the Countess will
laugh at it when it comes to her knowledge--as why should she do
otherwise? But she will feel very differently when she finds that you
and your daughter insist that it was she herself, and not her
handmaiden, whom you beheld. Rely on it, Madam, Lady Exeter will
contradict that assertion, and disprove it.'