They have received instructions to proceed by law for the recovery of the
Eustace diamonds, now in Lady Eustace's hands, and will feel obliged to
Lady Eustace if she will communicate to them the name and address of her
attorney.

"62 NEW SQUARE, 30 MAY, 186-."

The effect of this note was to drive Lizzie back upon the Fawn interest.
She was frightened about the diamonds, and was, nevertheless, almost
determined not to surrender them. At any rate, in such a strait she would
want assistance, either in keeping them or in giving them up. The lawyer's
letter afflicted her with a sense of weakness, and there was strength in
the Fawn connection. As Lord Fawn was so poor, perhaps he would adhere to
the jewels. She knew that she could not fight Mr. Camperdown with no other
assistance than what Messrs. Mowbray & Mopus might give her, and therefore
her heart softened toward her betrothed. "I suppose Frederic will be here
to-day," she said to Miss Macnulty, as they sat at breakfast together
about noon. Miss Macnulty nodded. "You can have a cab, you know, if you
like to go anywhere." Miss Macnulty said she thought she would go to the
National Gallery. "And you can walk back, you know," said Lizzie.

"I can walk there and back, too," said Miss Macnulty, in regard to whom it
may be said that the last ounce would sometimes almost break the horse's
back.

"Frederic" came, and was received very graciously. Lizzie had placed Mr.
Camperdown's note on the little table behind her, beneath the Bible, so
that she might put her hand upon it at once if she could make an
opportunity of showing it to her future husband. "Frederic" sat himself
beside her, and the intercourse for a while was such as might be looked