Nothing was said on the subject; but there was still the feeling that Lucy had offended.

At four o'clock on that Sunday afternoon Lord Fawn was closeted with Lady Eustace.
The "closeting" consisted simply in the fact that Miss Macnulty was not present.

Lizzie fully appreciated the pleasure, and utility, and general convenience of having a companion, but she had no scruple whatever in obtaining absolute freedom for herself when she desired it.

"My dear," she would say, "the best friends in the world shouldn't always be together; should they?
Wouldn't you like to go to the Horticultural ?" Then Miss Macnulty would go to the Horticultural,--or else up into her own bed-room.

When Lizzie was beginning to wax wrathful again because Frank Greystock did not come, Lord Fawn made his appearance.