‘Yes,’ said Georgiana boldly, ’and Mr Brehgert is a Jew.  His name is Ezekiel Brehgert, and he is a Jew.  You can say what you like about it.’

‘I don’t say anything about it, my dear.’

’And you can think anything you like.  Things are changed since you and I were younger.’

‘Very much changed, it appears,’ said Lady Monogram.  Sir Damask’s religion had never been doubted, though except on the occasion of his marriage no acquaintance of his had probably ever seen him in church.

But to tell her father and mother required a higher spirit than she had shown even in her communication to Lady Monogram, and that spirit had not as yet come to her.  On the morning before she left the Melmottes in Bruton Street...