thought, avoid giving it.

"Oh, I should like it so much!" said Lizzie. "Whenever it will suit you, I
will be there at a minute's notice." It was then arranged that she should
be at Fawn Court on that day week, and stay for a fortnight. "Of all
things that which I most desire now," said Lizzie, "is to know you and the
dear girls, and to be loved by you all."

Lady Eustace, as soon as she was alone in the room, stood in the middle of
it, scowling--for she could scowl. "I'll not go near them," she said to
herself; "nasty, stupid, dull, puritanical drones. If he don't like it, he
may lump it. After all, it's no such great catch." Then she sat down to
reflect whether it was or was not a catch. As soon as ever Lord Fawn had
left her after the engagement was made, she had begun to tell herself that
he was a poor creature, and that she had done wrong. "Only five thousand a
year!" she said to herself; for she had not perfectly understood that
little explanation which he had given respecting his income. "It's nothing
for a lord." And now again she murmured to herself, "It's my money he's
after. He'll find out that I know how to keep what I have got in my own
hands."

Now that Lady Fawn had been cold to her, she thought still less of the
proposed marriage. But there was this inducement for her to go on with it.
If they, the Fawn women, thought that they could break it off, she would
let them know that they had no such power.

"Well, mamma, you've seen her?" said Mrs. Hittaway.

"Yes, my dear; I've seen her. I had seen her two or three times before,
you know."