But still they were bound to do their duty by her as the widow of the late and the mother of the present baronet.

And they did not find much cause of complaining as to Lizzie's conduct in these days.

In that matter of the great family diamond necklace,--which certainly should not have been taken to Naples at all, and as to which the jeweller had told the lawyer and the lawyer had told John Eustace that it certainly should not now be detained among the widow's own private property,--the bishop strongly recommended that nothing should be said at present.

The mistake, if there was a mistake, could be remedied at any time.

And nothing in those very early days was said about the great Eustace necklace, which afterwards became so famous.
Why Lizzie should have been so generally disliked by the Eustaces, it might be hard to explain.