Camperdown. "Mr. Dove was quite clear about
that."
This was the end of the filing of that bill in Chancery as to which Mr.
Camperdown had been so very enthusiastic! Now it certainly was the case
that poor Lord Fawn in his conduct toward Lizzie had trusted greatly to
the support of Mr. Camperdown's legal proceeding. The world could hardly
have expected him to marry a woman against whom a bill in Chancery was
being carried on for the recovery of diamonds which did not belong to her.
But that support was now altogether withdrawn from him. It was
acknowledged that the necklace was not an heirloom, clearly acknowledged
by Mr. Camperdown! And even Mr. Camperdown would not express an opinion
that the lady had stolen her own diamonds.
How would it go with him, if, after all, he were to marry her? The bone of
contention between them had at any rate been made to vanish. The income
was still there, and Lady Glencora Palliser had all but promised her
friendship. As he entered the India Office on his return from Mr.
Camperdown's chambers, he almost thought that that would be the best way
out of his difficulty. In his room he found his brother-in-law, Mr.
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