“Insufferable woman!” was her immediate exclamation. “Worse than I had supposed. Absolutely insufferable! Knightley!⁠—I could not have believed it. Knightley!⁠—never seen him in her life before, and call him Knightley!⁠—and discover that he is a gentleman! A little upstart, vulgar being, with her Mr. E. , and her caro sposo , and her resources, and all her airs of pert pretension and underbred finery. Actually to discover that Mr. Knightley is a gentleman! I doubt whether he will return the compliment, and discover her to be a lady. I could not have believed it! And to propose that she and I should unite to form a musical club! One would fancy we were bosom friends! And Mrs.