"
"She has the devil of a temper, no doubt," said Lieutenant Griggs.
"No mouth, I should say," said Boodle. It was thus that Lizzie was talked
about at the clubs; but she was asked to dinners and balls, and gave
little dinners herself, and to a certain extent was the fashion. Everybody
had declared that of course she would marry again, and now it was known
everywhere that she was engaged to Lord Fawn.
"Poor dear Lord Fawn!" said Lady Glencora Palliser to her dear friend
Madame Max Goesler; "do you remember how violently he was in love with
Violet Effingham two years ago?"
"Two years is a long time, Lady Glencora; and Violet Effingham has chosen
another husband."
"But isn't this a fall for him? Violet was the sweetest girl out, and at
one time I really thought she meant to take him."
"I thought she meant to take another man whom she did not take," said Mme.
Goesler, who had her own recollections, who was a widow herself, and who,
at the period to which Lady Glencora was referring, had thought that
perhaps she might cease to be a widow. Not that she had ever suggested to
herself that Lord Fawn might be her second husband.
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