It was well
that the fact should be known, so that everybody might be aware that her
son was doing right in refusing to marry so wicked a lady. But when the
other thing was added to it; when the story was told of what Mr. Gowran
had seen among the rocks, and when gradually that became the special crime
which was to justify her son in dropping the lady's acquaintance, then
Lady Fawn became very unhappy, and found the subject to be, as Mrs.
Hittaway had described it, very distasteful.
And this trouble hit Lucy Morris as hard as it did Lord Fawn. If Lizzie
Eustace was unfit to marry Lord Fawn because of these things, then was
Frank Greystock not only unfit to marry Lucy, but most unlikely to do so,
whether fit or unfit. For a week or two Lady Fawn had allowed herself to
share Lucy's joy, and to believe that Mr. Greystock would prove himself
true to the girl whose heart he had made all his own; but she had soon
learned to distrust the young member of Parliament who was always behaving
insolently to her son, who spent his holidays down with Lizzie Eustace,
who never visited and rarely wrote to the girl he had promised to marry,
and as to whom all the world agreed in saying that he was far too much in
debt to marry any woman who had not means to help him.
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