"
"No, indeed. I have been in London six weeks, but have not been out much.
For the last fortnight I have been in bed. I have had things to trouble me
so much that they have made me ill."
"So I have heard, Lady Eustace, and I have just come to offer you my
sympathy. When I was told that you did see people, I thought that perhaps
you would admit me."
"So willingly, Lady Glencora!"
"I have heard, of course, of your terrible losses."
"The loss has been as nothing to the vexation that has accompanied it. I
don't know how to speak of it. Ladies have lost their jewels before now,
but I don't know that any lady before me has ever been accused of stealing
them herself."
"There has been no accusation, surely?"
"I haven't exactly been put in prison, Lady Glencora, but I have had
policemen here wanting to search my things; and then you know yourself
what reports have been spread."
"Oh, yes, I do. Only for that, to tell you plainly, I should hardly have
been here now." Then Lady Glencora poured out her sympathy--perhaps with
more eloquence and grace than discretion. She was, at any rate, both
graceful and eloquent.
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