But to Amelia something did leak out, and it became apparent that the household was uneasy.

Now,--as an evil added to this,--Frank Greystock had been there in Lady Fawn's absence, walking about the grounds alone with Lucy Morris.

Lady Fawn could hardly restrain herself.

"How could Lucy be so very wrong ?" she said, in the hearing both of Augusta and Amelia.
Lizzie Eustace did not hear this; but knowing very well that a governess should not receive a lover in the absence of the lady of the house, she made her little speech about it.

"Dear Lady Fawn," she said, "my cousin Frank came to see me while you were out." "So I hear," said Lady Fawn.
"Frank and I are more like brother and sister than anything else.