Mrs. Delany Quotes on Honor (1 Quote)

Mrs. Delany describes her first meeting with the Queen thus The King desired me to show the Queen one of my books of plants. She seated herself in the gallery a table and the book laid before her. I kept my distance till she called me to ask some questions about the mosaic paper work, and as I stood before Her Majesty the King set a chair behind me. I turned with some confusion and hesitation on receiving so great an honour, when the Queen said- 'Mrs. Delany, sit down, sit down it is not every lady that has a chair brought her by a King.' So I obeyed.