70 'OLD q' 



daughter, Lady Caroline, with Mr, Fox. Therefore 

 she gave a somewhat curious answer to her sister 

 Duchess's invitation: 'She could not determine.' 

 The Duchess of Queensberry appears to have 

 thought this a singular reply, so again sent the 

 same day for another, when a similar answer was 

 returned. This piqued her Grace of Queensberry, 

 who surmised the reason, and, not caring to be 

 thought an abettor of runaway matches, sent a 

 message that ' she had made up her company, 

 and desired to be excused Lady Emily's,' adding a 

 postscript which fully proves her quickness of wit 

 and perception : ' Too great a trust,' are the simple 

 words recorded, a home -thrust which conveyed to 

 the Duchess of Richmond the full force of Duchess 

 Catharine's sarcastic wit. This incident, it was 

 thought, might be attended by a 'declaration of 

 war ' between partisans of the houses of Queensberry 

 and Richmond. 



