No doubt, not to be a governess, but a young lady free
from the embarrassing necessity of earning bread, free to have a lover and
a husband, would be upon the whole nicer. So it is nicer to be born to
?10,000 a year than to have to wish for ?500. Lady Fawn could talk
excellent sense on this subject by the hour, and always admitted that much
was due to a governess who knew her place and did her duty. She was very
fond of Lucy Morris, and treated her dependent with affectionate
consideration; but she did not approve of visits from Mr. Frank Greystock.
Lucy, blushing up to the eyes, had once declared that she desired to have
no personal visitors at Lady Fawn's house; but that, as regarded her own
friendships, the matter was one for her own bosom. "Dear Miss Morris,"
Lady Fawn had said, "we understand each other so perfectly, and you are so
good, that I am quite sure everything will be as it ought to be." Lady
Fawn lived down at Richmond, all the year through, in a large old-
fashioned house with a large old-fashioned garden, called Fawn Court.
After that speech of hers to Lucy, Frank Greystock did not call again at
Fawn Court for many months, and it is possible that her ladyship had said
a word also to him.
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