What if some day his grace should be off to
Paris and insist on making Madame Goesler a duchess in the chapel of the
Embassy? Madame Goesler had hitherto behaved very well; would probably
continue to behave well. Lady Glencora really loved Madame Goesler. But
then the interests at stake were very great! So circumstanced, Lady
Glencora found herself compelled to be often on the road between Matching
and London.
But though she was burthened with great care, Lady Glencora by no means
dropped her interest in the Eustace diamonds; and when she learned that on
the top of the great Carlisle robbery a second robbery had been
superadded, and that this had been achieved while all the London police
were yet astray about the former operation, her solicitude was of course
enhanced. The duke himself, too, took the matter up so strongly that he
almost wanted to be carried up to London, with some view, as it was
supposed by the ladies who were so good to him, of seeing Lady Eustace
personally.
"It's out of the question, my dear," Lady Glencora said to Madame Goesler,
when the duke's fancy was first mentioned to her by that lady.
"I told him that the trouble would be too much for him.
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