Montagu loses his place at the Treasury--His antagonism against Walpole--Lady Mary, "Dolly" Walpole, and Molly Skerritt--The Earl and Countess of Mar leave England--Montagu appointed Ambassador to the Porte--Leaves England for Constantinople, accompanied by his wife-- Letters during the Embassy to Constantinople--Rotterdam--Vienna--Lady Mary at Court--Her gown--Her interest in clothes--Viennese society-- Gallantry--Lady Mary's experience--Court Tarrocco--Precedence at Vienna--A nunnery--The Montagus visit the German Courts--A dangerous drive--Prince Frederick (afterwards Prince of Wales)--Herrenhausen CHAPTER IX THE EMBASSY TO THE PORTS (1716-1718)--II Adrianople--Turkish baths--Lady Mary wears Turkish dress--Her description of the costume--Her views on Turkish women--She becomes acquainted with the practice of inoculation--Her son engrafted--Her belief in the operation--She later introduces it into England--Dr. Richard Mead--Richard Steele supports her campaign--Constantinople--Lady Mary homesick--Exposes the British ignorance of Turkish life--Montagu recalled--Addison's private letter to him--Lady Mary gives birth to a daughter--The return journey--The Montagus at Paris--Lady Mary sees her sister, Lady Mar CHAPTER X A SCANDAL Montagu re-enters the House of Commons--His miserliness--Pope refers to it--Comments on Society--Lady Mary and a first-class scandal--Rémond-- His admiration for her--Her imprudent letters to him--The South Sea Bubble--Lady Mary speculates for Remond--She loses money for him--He demands to be re-imbursed--He threatens to publish her letters--She states the case in letters to Lady Mar--Lady Mary meets Pope--His letters to her when she was abroad--He affects to be in love with her--Her matter-of-fact replies--Her parody of his verses, "On John Hughes and Sarah Drew" CHAPTER XI AT TWICKENHAM The Montagus take a house at Twickenham--Lady Mary's liking for country life--Neighbours and visitors--Pope--Bononcini, Anastasia Robinson, Senesino--Lord Peterborough--Sir Geoffrey Kneller--Henrietta Howard--Lord Bathurst--The Duke of Wharton--His early history--He comes to Twickenham--His relations with Lady Mary--Horace Walpole's reference to them--Pope's bitter onsaught on the Duke--An Epilogue by Lady Mary--"On the Death of Mrs. Bowes"--The Duke quarrels with Lady Mary CHAPTER XII A FAMOUS QUARREL Pope and Lady Mary--He pays her compliments--His jealousy of her other admirers--The cause of his quarrel with her--His malicious attacks on her thereafter--Writer of her as "Sappho"--Lady Mary asks Arbuthnot to protect her--Molly Skerritt--Lady Stafford--Lady Mar's malicious tongue and pen--Mrs. Murray--"An Epistle from Arthur Grey"--Lady Mary, Lord Hervey, and Molly Lepell--Death of the Earl of Kingston--Lady Gower--Lady Mar--Marriage of Lady Mary's daughter CHAPTER XIII ON THE CONTINENT (1739-1744)