As the Bennet family discovered in Pride and Prejudice, to be condescended to by Lady Catherine de Bourgh is an experience to be avoided. But when Miss Priscilla Delaval and her brother Ralph are stranded after a carriage accident, Lady Catherine -- despite the fact that they belong to the hitherto unheard-of Wensleydale Delavals -- offers them hospitality. Here is another splendid Jane Austen entertainment from Joan Aiken, the acknowledged mistress of her craft, in which the course of true love runs as crookedly as ever, and Lady Catherine de Bourgh is finally cut down to size.