 Rawdon and Sharp have wed and have a son, also named Rawdon, but his role in her life is more in the manner of being a prop for Sharp to demonstrate her marital bliss.She makes her sitting room a salon — with "ice and coffee ... the best there is in London — where she can be surrounded by admirers, among whom she ranks men of a "small but elite crowd".It is no surprise, suggests Frazee, that Sharp eventually meets the King — who had been regent, now George IV—and in his "high presence Mrs Rawdon passed her examination, and as it were, took her degree in reputation" from him