Sentence:  “... That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh....If she had her way, she'd ruin the <WSD>company</WSD> inside a year with her hare-brained schemes; love of the people, and that sort of guff.” 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.