"Is that Lucy?" she asked.
"Yes;" said Augusta, with a tone of horror. "Indeed it is; and--Mr.
Greystock."
Lady Fawn was neither shocked nor displeased; nor was she disappointed;
but a certain faint feeling of being ill-used by circumstances came over
her. "Dear me; the very first day!" she said.
"It's because he wouldn't go to Lady Linlithgow's," said Amelia. "He has
only waited, mamma."
"But the very first day!" exclaimed Lady Fawn. "I hope Lucy will be happy;
that's all."
There was a great meeting of all the Fawns, as soon as Lady Fawn and the
eldest girls were in the house. Mr. Greystock had been walking about the
grounds with Lucy for the last hour and a half. Lucy had come in once to
beg that Lady Fawn might be told directly she came in. "She said you were
to send for her, mamma," said Lydia.
"But it's dinner-time, my dear. What are we to do with Mr. Greystock?"
"Ask him to lunch, of course," said Amelia.
"I suppose it's all right," said Lady Fawn.
"I'm quite sure it's all right," said Nina.
"What did she say to you, Lydia?" asked the mother.
"She was as happy as ever she could be," said Lydia.
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