During the journey she had been angry without thought, but was almost
entitled to be excused for her anger. Could Miss Macnulty have realised
the amount of oppression inflicted on her patroness by the box of
diamonds, she would have forgiven anything. Hitherto there had been some
secrecy, or at any rate some privacy, attached to the matter; but now that
odious lawyer had discussed the matter aloud, in the very streets, in the
presence of servants, and Lady Eustace had felt that it was discussed also
by every porter on the railway from London down to Troon, the station in
Scotland at which her own carriage met her to take her to her own castle.
The night at Carlisle had been terrible to her, and the diamonds had never
been for a moment off her mind. Perhaps the worst of it all was that her
own man-servant and maid-servant had heard the claim which had been so
violently made by Mr. Camperdown. There are people in that respect very
fortunately circumstanced, whose servants, as a matter of course, know all
their affairs, have an interest in their concerns, sympathise with their
demands, feel their wants, and are absolutely at one with them.
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