And he came to see Diana--and still Diana knew nothing! Mrs.Colwood must simply be telling lies--silly lies! Fanny glanced at her with contempt.
Yet so bewildered was she that when Sir James addressed her, she stared at him in what seemed a fit of shyness.

And when she began to talk it was at random, for her mind was in a tumult.

But Sir James soon divined her.

Vulgarity, conceit, ill-breeding--the great lawyer detected them in five minutes' conversation.

Nor were they unexpected; for he was well acquainted with Miss Fanny's origins.