"All the same, I shall go myself."
"Augusta, my dear, you and the girls had better go. You can take the
carriage of course." But Augusta and the girls chose to walk, and the
carriage was sent round into the yard.
"There's a rumpus already between my lord and the young missus," said the
coachman to the groom; for the coachman had seen the way in which Lady
Eustace had returned to the house. And there certainly was a rumpus.
During the whole morning Lord Fawn was closeted with his mother, and then
he went away to London without saying a word to any one of the family. But
he left this note for Lady Eustace:
"DEAREST LIZZIE: Think well of what I have said to you. It is not that I
desire to break off our engagement; but that I cannot allow my wife to
keep the diamonds which belong of right to her late husband's family. You
may be sure that I should not be thus urgent had I not taken steps to
ascertain that I am right in my judgment. In the mean time you had better
consult my mother.
"Yours affectionately,
"FAWN."
CHAPTER XV
"I'LL GIVE YOU A HUNDRED-GUINEA BROOCH"
There had been another "affair" in the house that morning, though of a
nature very different to the "rumpus" which had occurred between Lord Fawn
and Lady Eustace.
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