He'll find out that I know how to keep what I've got in my own hands." Now that Lady Fawn had been cold to her, she thought still less of the proposed marriage.

But there was this inducement for her to go on with it.

If they, the Fawn women, thought that they could break it off, she would let them know that they had no such power.
"Well, mamma, you've seen her ?" said Mrs.Hittaway.
"Yes, my dear; I've seen her.

I had seen her two or three times before, you know." "And you are still in love with her ?" "I never said that I was in love with her, Clara." "And what has been fixed ?" "She is to come down to Fawn Court next week, and stay a fortnight with us.

Then we shall find out what she is." "That will be best, mamma," said Augusta.
"Mind, mamma; you understand me.