text:  This (though Mrs Harcourt was servile enough to admit as a reason ) as it was strictly forbidden by the King "--[it _does_ seem therefore that some such difficulty had been apprehended and the probable conduct of Lady ---- discussed!]--"I most decidedly opposed and told Lady ---- that as she must have known that riding backward in a coach disagreed with her she ought never to have accepted the situation of a lady of the bedchamber who never ought to sit forward and that if she really was likely to be sick I would put Mrs Aston into the coach with the Princess and have by that means the pleasure of Lady ----'s company in the carriage allotted to me and Lord Claremont