It was all very well for her now to say that she had
forgotten; but would any one believe that on such a subject she could
forget?
But still the whole thing was very uncomfortable. Mr. Dove's opinion, if
seen by Lady Eustace and her friends, would rather fortify them than
frighten them. Were she once to get hold of that word paraphernalia, it
would be as a tower of strength to her. Mr. Camperdown specially felt
this, that whereas he had hitherto believed that no respectable attorney
would take up such a case as that of Lady Eustace, he could not now but
confess to himself that any lawyer seeing Mr. Dove's opinion would be
justified in taking it up. And yet he was as certain as ever that the
woman was robbing the estate which it was his duty to guard, and that
should he cease to be active in the matter the necklace would be broken up
and the property sold and scattered before a year was out, and then the
woman would have got the better of him! "She shall find that we have not
done with her yet," he said to himself, as he wrote a line to John
Eustace.
But John Eustace was out of town, as a matter of course; and on the next
day Mr.
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