It will afflict her that I should have interrupted that career which would have made me first a privy councillor, and then minister, and that I should look behind me, in place of advancing.

• 她本来可以指望儿子当上枢密顾问和公使的，现在竟看着他一下子就把这个锦绣前程断送了，又牵着马回到了马圈！