beautifully romantic!" said Lizzie. "But the people live on the mountain
and pay rent?"

Lord Fawn asked no such inept questions respecting the Ayrshire property,
but he did inquire who was Lizzie's solicitor. "Of course there will be
things to be settled," he said, "and my lawyer had better see yours. Mr.
Camperdown is a----"

"Mr. Camperdown!" almost shrieked Lizzie. Lord Fawn then explained, with
some amazement, that Mr. Camperdown was his lawyer. As far as his belief
went, there was not a more respectable gentleman in the profession. Then
he inquired whether Lizzie had any objection to Mr. Camperdown. "Mr.
Camperdown was Sir Florian's lawyer," said Lizzie.

"That will make it all the easier, I should think," said Lord Fawn.

"I don't know how that may be," said Lizzie, trying to bring her mind to
work upon the subject steadily. "Mr. Camperdown has been very uncourteous
to me; I must say that; and, as I think, unfair. He wishes to rob me now
of a thing that is quite my own."

"What sort of a thing?" asked Lord Fawn slowly.

"A very valuable thing. I'll tell you all about it, Frederic. Of course
I'll tell you everything now. I never could keep back anything from one
that I loved. It's not my nature. There; you might as well read that
note." Then she put her hand back and brought Mr. Camperdown's letter from
under the Bible. Lord Fawn read it very attentively, and as he read it
there came upon him a great doubt. What sort of woman was this to whom he
had engaged himself because she was possessed of an income? That Mr.