" This she said in her softest whisper.
"Oh, yes--Lord Fawn. I know him very well. Of course I heard of it. We all
heard of it."
"And you have heard how he has treated me?"
"Yes--indeed."
"I will say nothing about him--to you, Lady Glencora. It would not be
proper that I should do so. But all that came of this wretched necklace.
After that, can you wonder that I should say that I wish these stones had
been thrown into the sea?"
"I suppose Lord Fawn will--will come all right again now?" said Lady
Glencora.
"All right!" exclaimed Lizzie in astonishment.
"His objection to the marriage will now be over."
"I'm sure I do not in the least know what are his lordship's views," said
Lizzie in scorn, "and, to tell the truth, I do not very much care."
"What I mean is, that he didn't like you to have the Eustace diamonds----"
"They were not Eustace diamonds. They were my diamonds."
"But he did not like you to have them; and as they are now gone--
forever----"
"Oh, yes, they are gone forever."
"His objection is gone too. Why don't you write to him, and make him come
and see you? That's what I should do."
Lizzie, of course, repudiated vehemently any idea of forcing Lord Fawn
into a marriage which had become distasteful to him--let the reason be
what it might.
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