As she walked alone among the shrubs she made arguments in defence of Lady Fawn as against herself.

And yet at every other minute she would blaze up into a grand wrath, and picture to herself a scene in which she would tell Lady Fawn boldly that as her lover had been banished from Fawn Court, she, Lucy, would remain there no longer.

There were but two objections to this course.

The first was that Frank Greystock was not her lover; and the second, that on leaving Fawn Court she would not know whither to betake herself.

It was understood by everybody that she was never to leave Fawn Court till an unexceptionable home should be found for her, either with the Hittaways or elsewhere.