They made me pay for the very furniture at Portray." This wasn't true; but it was true that Lizzie had endeavoured to palm off on the Eustace estate bills for new things which she had ordered for her own country-house.

"I haven't near enough.

I am in debt already.
People talked as though I were the richest woman in the world; but when it comes to be spent, I ain't rich.

Why should I give them up if they're my own ?" "Not if they're your own." "If I give you a present and then die, people can't come and take it away afterwards because I didn't put it into my will.

There'd be no making presents like that at all." This Lizzie said with an evident conviction in the strength of her argument.
"But this necklace is so very valuable." "That can't make a difference.