"I am afraid we do not understand each other," he said at last.
"Certainly I do not understand you, sir."
"Will you allow my mother to speak to you on the subject?"
"No. If I told your mother to give up her diamonds, what would she say?"
"But they are not yours, Lady Eustace, unless you will submit that
question to an arbitrator."
"I will submit nothing to anybody. You have no right to speak on such a
subject till after we are married."
"I must have it settled first, Lady Eustace."
"Then, Lord Fawn, you won't have it settled first. Or rather it is settled
already. I shall keep my own necklace, and Mr. Camperdown may do anything
he pleases. As for you, if you ill-treat me, I shall know where to go to."
They had now come out from the shrubbery upon the lawn, and there was the
carriage at the door, ready to take the elders of the family to church. Of
course in such a condition of affairs it would be understood that Lizzie
was one of the elders.
"I shall not go to church now," she said, as she advanced across the lawn
toward the hall door. "You will be pleased, Lord Fawn, to let your mother
know that I am detained.
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