You can take the carriage of course." But Augusta and the girls chose to walk, and the carriage was sent round into the yard.
"There's a rumpus already between my lord and the young missus," said the coachman to the groom;--for the coachman had seen the way in which Lady Eustace had returned to the house.

And there certainly was a rumpus.

During the whole morning Lord Fawn was closeted with his mother, and then he went away to London without saying a word to any one of the family.

But he left this note for Lady Eustace:-- DEAREST LIZZIE, Think well of what I have said to you.

It is not that I desire to break off our engagement; but that I cannot allow my wife to keep the diamonds which belong of right to her late husband's family.