Lady Susan has an amazing ability to waltz into a situation and mess it up for everyone. Mrs Mainwaring loves her husband who loves Lady Susan, she is “insupportably jealous and so enraged against” Lady Susan that it is “time for (her) to be gone.”
Sir James Martin is (probably) in love with both Vernon ladies and devastated when they leave Langford in this scene though in the book he’s the one that leaves.
Lady Susan “bestowed a little notice” on Sir James Martin, “in order to detach him from Miss Mainwaring” and managed to get him to “make proposals to (her) for Frederica” her daughter. Masterful.
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