"Frank's mother was, as we are so wont to say of many women, the best woman in the world. She was unselfish, affectionate, charitable, and thoroughly feminine. But she did think that her son Frank, with all his advantages, - good looks, cleverness, general popularity, and seat in Parliament,- might just as well marry an heiress as a little girl without twopence in the world" - The Eustace Diamonds.