She told no one,--not even Miss Macnulty; but she appeared before that lady, arrayed in all her glory, just as she was about to descend to her carriage.

"You've got the necklace on!" said Miss Macnulty.

"Why should I not wear my own necklace ?" she asked, with assumed anger.
Lady Glencora's rooms were already very full when Lizzie entered them, but she was without a gentleman, and room was made for her to pass quickly up the stairs.

The diamonds had been recognised by many before she had reached the drawing-room;--not that these very diamonds were known, or that there was a special memory for that necklace;--but the subject had been so generally discussed, that the blaze of the stones immediately brought it to the minds of men and women.

"There she is, with poor Eustace's twenty thousand pounds round her neck," said Laurence Fitzgibbon to his friend Barrington Erle.