Meanwhile, to have some one on whose bosom she could weep, Miss Greeb went round to see Mrs.Bensusan, leaving Diana in possession of Lucian, and the cat sole occupant of the kitchen.
In the drawing-room, on the front floor, Diana, with her eyes shining like two stars, was talking to Lucian.

She had come up at once on receipt of his letter; she had been to Hampstead, she had seen her father, and now she was telling Lucian about the visit.
"He knew me at once, poor dear," she said rapidly, "and asked me if I had been out, just as if I'd left the house for a visit and come back.
Ah!"-- she shook her head and sighed--"I am afraid he'll never be quite himself again." "What does Jorce think ?" "He says that father can be discharged as cured, and is going to see about it for me.

Of course, he will never be quite sane, but he will never be violent so long as morphia and drugs of that sort are kept from him.

As soon as he is discharged I shall take him back to Bath, and put him in charge of Miss Barbar; then I shall return to town, and we must expose the whole conspiracy!" "Conspiracy ?" "What else do you call it, Lucian?
That woman and Ferruci have planned and carried it out between them.

They put my father into the asylum, and made another man pass as him, in order to get the assurance money.