text:  "Lord Dudley informed me he had asked you to dance three times in vain; and Lord Robert Stanley assured me _he_ could scarcely get a civil answer from you!--Yet you found time Mary to dance twice in the course of the evening with that son of Sparks's!" "That son of Sparks's as you so despisingly call him dearest papa is a most charming partner; while Lord Dudley and my cousin Robert are little better than boors