She had come, she said, to give the Duke of Omnium's
compliments to Lady Eustace, and to express a wish on the part of the duke
that the lost diamonds might be recovered.
"I doubt," said Lady Glencora, "whether there is any one in England except
professed jewellers who knows so much about diamonds as his grace."
"Or who has so many," said Mrs. Carbuncle, smiling graciously.
"I don't know about that. I suppose there are, family diamonds, though I
have never seen them. But he sympathises with you completely, Lady
Eustace. I suppose there is hardly hope now of recovering them!" Lizzie
smiled and shook her head. "Isn't it odd that they never should have
discovered the thieves? I'm told they haven't at all given it up, only,
unfortunately they'll never get back the necklace." She sat there for
about a quarter of an hour, and then, as she took her leave, she whispered
a few words to Lizzie. "He is to come and see you, isn't he?" Lizzie
assented with a smile, but without a word. "I hope it will be all right,"
said Lady Glencora, and then she went.
Lizzie liked this friendship from Lady Glencora amazingly. Perhaps, after
all, nothing more would ever be known about the diamonds, and they would
simply be remembered as having added a peculiar and not injurious mystery
to her life.
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