"She is dying to handle her money," said Mrs.Eustace to the bishop.

"She is only like the rest of the world in that," said the bishop.

"If she would be really open, I wouldn't mind it," said Mrs.Eustace.None of them liked her,--and she did not like them.
She remained at the palace for six months, and at the end of that time she went to her own place in Scotland.

Mrs.Eustace had strongly advised her to ask her aunt, Lady Linlithgow, to accompany her, but in refusing to do this, Lizzie was quite firm.

She had endured Lady Linlithgow for that year between her father's death and her marriage; she was now beginning to dare to hope for the enjoyment of the good things which she had won, and the presence of the dowager-countess,--"the vulturess,"-- was certainly not one of these good things.