But nobody came, and at six she
went down to dinner. After much consideration she then left the diamonds
in the desk. Surely no one would come to search at such an hour as that.
No one had come when the carriage was announced, and the three ladies went
off together.
During the whole way Mrs. Carbuncle talked of the terrible situation in
which poor Lord George was placed by the robbery, and of all that Lizzie
owed him on account of his trouble.
"My dear," said Mrs. Carbuncle, "the least you can do for him is to give
him all that you've got to give."
"I don't know that he wants me to give him anything," said Lizzie.
"I think that's quite plain," said Mrs. Carbuncle, "and I'm sure I wish it
may be so. He and I have been dear friends--very dear friends, and there
is nothing I wish so much as to see him properly settled. Ill-natured
people like to say all manner of things because everybody does not choose
to live in their own heartless, conventional form. But I can assure you
there is nothing between me and Lord George which need prevent him from
giving his whole heart to you."
"I don't suppose there is," said Lizzie, who loved an opportunity of
giving Mrs.
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