In the telling of our
tale we have gone a little in advance of this, as it was not till the
subsequent Monday that Lady Linlithgow read in the newspaper, and told
Lucy, how a man had been arrested on account of the robbery. Early on the
Saturday morning Sir Griffin Tewett was in Hertford Street, and, as Lizzie
afterwards understood, there was a terrible scene between both him and
Lucinda and him and Mrs. Carbuncle. She saw nothing of it herself, but
Mrs. Carbuncle brought her the tidings. For the last few days Mrs.
Carbuncle had been very affectionate in her manner to Lizzie, thereby
showing a great change; for nearly the whole of February the lady, who in
fact owned the house, had hardly been courteous to her remunerative guest,
expressing more than once a hint that the arrangement which had brought
them together had better come to an end. "You see, Lady Eustace," Mrs.
Carbuncle had once said, "the trouble about these robberies is almost too
much for me." Lizzie, who was ill at the time, and still trembling with
constant fear on account of the lost diamonds, had taken advantage of her
sick condition, and declined to argue the question of her removal.
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