"There has been better ladies, and there has been worser, Hester," was Miss Horrocks' reply to this compliment of her inferior; so she ruled, having supreme power over all except her father, whom, however, she treated with considerable haughtiness, warning him not to be too familiar in his behaviour to one "as was to be a Baronet's lady." 
"There has been better ladies, and there has been worser, Hester," was Miss Horrocks's reply. So she ruled, having supreme power over all except her father - whom, however, she treated haughtily, warning him not to be too familiar towards one "as was to be a Baronet's lady."
