At this ceremony Lucy was not present.

Lydia had asked her to come down and say good-bye; but Lucy refused.

"I saw her in her own room," said Lucy.
"And was it all very affectionate ?" Lydia asked.
"Well--no; it was not affectionate at all." This was all that Lucy said, and thus Lady Eustace completed her visit to Fawn Court.
The letters were taken away for the post at eight o'clock in the evening, and before that time it was necessary that Lucy should write to her lover.

"Lady Fawn," she said in a whisper, "may I tell him to come here ?" "Certainly, my dear.

You had better tell him to call on me.