We shall soon find out what are
Mr. Greystock's ideas; and unless he is very unreasonable we'll make
things fit."
Then there came a message to Lucy from Lady Eustace. "If you please, Miss,
Lady Eustace will be glad to see you for a minute up in her room before
she starts." So Lucy was torn away from the thoughts of her own happiness,
and taken upstairs to Lady Eustace. "You have heard that I am going?" said
Lizzie.
"Yes; I heard you were to go this morning."
"And you have heard why? I'm sure you will not deceive me, Lucy. Where am
I to look for truth, if not to an old, old friend like you?"
"Why should I deceive you, Lizzie?"
"Why, indeed? Only that all people do. The world is so false, so material,
so worldly! One gives out one's heart and gets in return nothing but dust
and ashes--nothing but ashes and dust. Oh, I have been so disappointed in
Lady Fawn."
"You know she is my dearest friend," said Lucy.
"Pshaw! I know that you have worked for her like a slave, and that she has
paid you a bare pittance."
"She has been more like a mother to me than anything else," said Lucy
angrily.
"Because you have been tame.
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