"
"I will never give them up. What does Mr. Dove say?"
"I have not seen what Mr. Dove says. It is clear that the necklace is not
an heirloom."
"Then how dare Mr. Camperdown say so often that it was?"
"He said what he thought," pleaded Frank.
"And he is a lawyer!"
"I am a lawyer, and I did not know what is or what is not an heirloom. But
Mr. Dove is clearly of opinion that such a property could not have been
given away simply by a word of mouth." John Eustace in his letter had made
no allusion to that complicated question of paraphernalia.
"But it was," said Lizzie. "Who can know but myself, when no one else was
present?"
"The jewels are here now?"
"Not in my pocket. I do not carry them about with me. They are in the
castle."
"And will they go back with you to London?"
"Was ever lady so interrogated? I do not know yet that I shall go back to
London. Why am I asked such questions? As to you, Frank, I would tell you
everything, my whole heart, if only you cared to know it. But why is John
Eustace to make inquiry as to personal ornaments which are my own
property? If I go to London I will take them there, and wear them at every
house I enter.
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