>>I would not have thought Sir Walter and Elizabeth would willingly place themselves in any situation in which they are not top dog. How is their vanity to be pleased by doing this?<<

Mr. Elliot says:
You may depend upon it, that they will move in the first set in Bath this winter, and as rank is rank, your being known to be related to them will have its use in fixing your family (our family, let me say) in that degree of consideration which we must all wish for