'Mamma!' said Rosamond blushing deeply.

Colored illustration of a young woman sitting in a chair, her mother standing behind her. A young man looks absentmindedly at the wall.

This scene captures Rosamond’s calculated interest in Lydgate clash between their romantic ideals and the social and financial realities they face. Rosamond’s blush and response to her mother show both her concern with her social image and the pressure on young women to secure advantageous marriages, hinting at the manipulation underlying her courtship. "'Mamma!' said Rosamond, who was seated near the window (the dining-room windows looked on that highly respectable street called Lowick Gate), 'there is Mr Lydgate, stopping to speak to some one. If I were you I would call him in. He has cured Ellen Bulstrode. They say he cures every one'" (Book 4, Chapter 36).

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