The cloud came across his brow, and he began to fear
that she would again insult him. "I oughtn't to accuse anybody of an
untruth--not in that way; and I am very sorry for what I did, and I beg
your pardon." Then she turned as though she were going back to the house.
But he stopped her. "Miss Morris, if it will suit you to stay with my
mother, I will never say a word against it."
"It is quite settled that I am to go to-morrow, Lord Fawn. Only for that I
would not have troubled you again."
Then she did turn towards the house, but he recalled her. "We will shake
hands, at any rate," he said, "and not part as enemies." So they shook
hands, and Lucy came down and sat in his company at the dinner-table.
CHAPTER XXXIV
LADY LINLITHGOW AT HOME
Lucy, in her letter to her lover, had distinctly asked whether she might
tell Lady Linlithgow the name of her future husband, but had received no
reply when she was taken to Bruton Street. The parting at Richmond was
very painful, and Lady Fawn had declared herself quite unable to make
another journey up to London with the ungrateful runagate. Though there
was no diminution of affection among the Fawns, there was a general
feeling that Lucy was behaving badly.
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