"You mean the safe."

"Well--yes; only it isn't a safe. A safe is a great big thing. I had it
made especially for the diamonds Sir Florian gave me."

"I supposed it was so."

"I wonder whether there's any danger about it?"

"If I were you, Lady Eustace, I wouldn't keep them in the house. I should
have them kept where Sir Florian kept them. Suppose anybody should come
and murder you."

"I'm not a bit afraid of that," said Lizzie.

"I should be. And what will you do with it when you go to Scotland?"

"I took them with me before--in my own care. I know that wasn't safe. I
wish I knew what to do with them."

"There are people who keep such things," said Miss Macnulty.

Then Lizzie paused a moment. She was dying for counsel and for confidence.
"I cannot trust them anywhere," she said. "It is just possible there may
be a lawsuit about them."

"How a lawsuit?"

"I cannot explain it all, but I am very unhappy about it. They want me to
give them up; but my husband gave them to me, and for his sake I will not