The envoy defended himself from the attack made under cover of this insinuation, and he defended himself with gaiety and success. The Princess herself acknowledged as much, and Lord Malmesbury rather naïvely observes that, after descanting to the bride upon the necessity of regular church-going when she got to England, he was glad he had set her thinking on the _drawbacks_ as well as of the _agrémens_ of her situation. The attendance at church was, in _his_ eyes, a rather severe discipline; but, as he so forcibly impressed on the mind of his charge, ‘in the order of society, those of a very high rank have a price to pay for it. The life of a Princess of Wales is not to be one of pleasure, dissipation, and enjoyment. The great and conspicuous advantages belonging to it must necessarily be purchased by considerable sacrifices, and can only be preserved and kept up by a continual repetition of those sacrifices.’ The Princess probably sighed as she weighed the pomp of her position against the piety by which she was to formally illustrate it. Lord Malmesbury could not play the mentor without the godless wits of the court treating him to a little raillery. On the evening when he had been expatiating on the uses of attendance at church, during the noise and revelry of a masquerade, he encountered Madame de Waggenheim She was the lady who ‘drank,’ and whom the noble diarist sets down upon his tablets as ‘absurd, ridiculous, ill-mannered, and _méchante_.’ ‘How did you find the little one?’ said she, alluding thereby to the Princess. ‘Rather old as she is, her education is not yet _finished_.’ Lord Malmesbury felt the taunt, but parried it with the remark that ‘at an age far beyond that of her Royal Highness persons might be found in whom the education of which she spoke had not even begun.’ CHAPTER II. THE NEW HOME. The Princess desires to have Lord Malmesbury for her lord chamberlain--The Duchess a coarse-minded woman--The Duke of Clarence her bitter enemy--The Duke and Duchess’s caution to Lord Malmesbury, and his dignified reply--The Abbess of Gandersheim’s opinion of mankind--Difficult question proposed by the Princess, and Lord Malmesbury’s gallant reply --The Abbess without human sympathy--A state dinner, and a mischievous anonymous letter--The Princess’s departure for England--Her indifference to money--Instances--Ignorance of the Duchess--Difficulties of the journey--The Princess’s design to reform the Prince of Wales--Indefatigable care of Lord Malmesbury--Story of the Princess at Hanover--Care as to her toilette recommended--Presents given by the Princess-- Her arrival in England--Ridiculed by Lady Jersey--Reproof administered to her ladyship by Lord Malmesbury--The first interview of the Prince and Princess--Cold reception of the bride--Flippant conduct of the Princess--Lord Malmesbury reproached by the Prince of Wales.