Showing What Frank Greystock Did Frank Greystock escaped from the dovecote before Lady Fawn had returned.

He had not made his visit to Richmond with any purpose of seeing Lucy Morris, or of saying to her when he did see her anything special,--of saying anything that should, or anything that should not, have been said.

He had gone there, in truth, simply because his cousin had asked him, and because it was almost a duty on his part to see his cousin on the momentous occasion of this new engagement.

But he had declared to himself that old Lady Fawn was a fool, and that to see Lucy again would be very pleasant.

"See her;--of course I'll see her," he had said.