_ But to have left such a widow behind one!
"John," he said, opening his door. John was his son and partner, and John
came to him, having been summoned by a clerk from another room. "Just shut
the door. I've had such a scene here; Lord Fawn and Mr. Greystock almost
coming to blows about that horrid woman."
"The Upper House would have got the worst of it, as it usually does," said
the younger attorney.
"And there is John Eustace cares no more what becomes of the property than
if he had nothing to do with it; absolutely talks of replacing the
diamonds out of his own pocket; a man whose personal interest in the
estate is by no means equal to her own."
"He wouldn't do it, you know," said Camperdown Junior, who did not know
the family.
"It's just what he would do," said the father, who did. "There's nothing
they wouldn't give away when once the idea takes them. Think of that woman
having the whole Portray estate, perhaps for the next sixty years--nearly
the fee-simple of the property--just because she made eyes to Sir
Florian."
"That's done and gone, father."
"And here's Dove tells us that a necklace can't be an heirloom unless it
belongs to the Crown.
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