What astonishes me is, that
Fawn should object to the necklace. However, he has objected, and has
simply told her that he won't marry her unless she gives them up."
"And what does she say?"
"Storms and raves, as of course any woman would. I don't think she is
behaving badly. What she wants is, to reduce him to obedience, and then to
dismiss him. I think that is no more than fair. Nothing on earth would
make her marry him now."
"Did she ever care for him?"
"I don't think she ever did. She found her position to be troublesome, and
she thought she had better marry. And then he's a lord, which always goes
for something."
"I am sorry you should have so much trouble," said Mrs. Greystock. But in
truth the mother was not sorry. She did not declare to herself that it
would be a good thing that her son should be false to Lucy Morris in order
that he might marry his rich cousin; but she did feel it to be an
advantage that he should be on terms of intimacy with so large an income
as that belonging to Lady Eustace. "Doan't thou marry for munny, but goa
where munny is." Mrs. Greystock would have repudiated the idea of
mercenary marriages in any ordinary conversation, and would have been
severe on any gentleman who was false to a young lady.
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