CHAPTER XVIII.
"At last," declared Mrs.Lashmar, "it really looks as if Dyce was going to do something.

I've just been writing to Lady Susan, and I have let her see unmistakably what I think of her friendship.

But I'm very glad Dyce isn't indebted to her, for a more unendurable woman, when she thinks she has done anyone a kindness, doesn't exist.

If she gets a place for a servant-girl, all the world is told of it, and she expects you to revere her saintly benevolence.

I am _very_ glad that she never did anything for Dyce.