When the admiral's wife was living, Lucy had, as a little girl of eight or nine, been her guest.

She had often been a guest at the deanery.

When Lady Eustace had gone down to the bishop's palace at Bobsborough, in order that an heir to the Eustaces might be born under an auspicious roof, Lucy Morris was with the Greystocks.

Lucy, who was a year younger than Lizzie, had at that time been an orphan for the last four years.

She too had been left penniless, but no such brilliant future awaited her as that which Lizzie had earned for herself.