CHAPTER XLVI
LUCY MORRIS IN BROOK STREET
Lucy Morris went to Lady Linlithgow early in October, and was still with
Lady Linlithgow when Lizzie Eustace returned to London in January. During
these three months she certainly had not been happy. In the first place,
she had not once seen her lover. This had aroused no anger or suspicion in
her bosom against him, because the old countess had told her that she
would have no lover come to the house, and that, above all, she would not
allow a young man with whom she herself was connected to come in that
guise to her companion. "From all I hear," said Lady Linlithgow, "it's not
at all likely to be a match; and at any rate it can't go on here." Lucy
thought that she would be doing no more than standing up properly for her
lover by asserting her conviction that it would be a match; and she did
assert it bravely; but she made no petition for his presence, and bore
that trouble bravely. In the next place, Frank was not a satisfactory
correspondent. He did write to her occasionally; and he wrote also to the
old countess immediately on his return to town from Bobsborough a letter
which was intended as an answer to that which she had written to Mrs.
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