Was not she the only Lady Eustace living?
As to these threats from Mr.Camperdown and Lady Linlithgow, she felt certain they would be used against her whether they were true or false.

She would break her heart should she abandon her prey and afterwards find that Mr.Camperdown would have been wholly powerless against her had she held on to it.

But then who would tell her the truth?
She was sharp enough to understand, or at any rate suspicious enough to believe, that Mr.Mopus would be actuated by no other desire in the matter than that of running up a bill against her.

"My dear," she said to Miss Macnulty, as they went up-stairs after the opera, "come into my room a moment.

You heard all that my aunt said ?" "I could not help hearing.