A Sissy Saga Ch 17
Titled people were a weakness with Miriam Hancock. She frequently spoke of them with harsh condescension, but the snob in her heart secretly rated them higher than wealthy businessmen, and so it was with some delight she agreed to the visit of the ennobled Marchioness of Wiggleswick. The delight had doubled when she discovered that in both Debrett’s Distinguished People and Burke’s Peerage the lady was ranked far higher in importance than Diana Chance-Barton. She was extremely old, in her...