She put the Bible down very quietly, and asked Lady Eustace when it would suit her to come down to Fawn Court.

Lady Fawn had promised her son to give the invitation, and could not now, she thought, avoid giving it.
"Oh, I should like it so much!" said Lizzie.

"Whenever it will suit you, I will be there at a minute's notice." It was then arranged that she should be at Fawn Court on that day week, and stay for a fortnight.

"Of all things that which I most desire now," said Lizzie, "is to know you and the dear girls,--and to be loved by you all." Lady Eustace, as soon as she was alone in the room, stood in the middle of it, scowling,--for she could scowl.

"I'll not go near them," she said to herself,--"nasty, stupid, dull, puritanical drones.