"How kind this is," said Lizzie.

"I thought you were always at Richmond on Sundays." "I have just come up from my mother's," said Lord Fawn, twiddling his hat.

Then Lizzie, with a pretty eagerness, asked after Lady Fawn and the girls, and her dear little friend Lucy Morris.

Lizzie could be very prettily eager when she pleased.

She leaned forward her face as she asked her questions, and threw back her loose lustrous lock of hair, with her long lithe fingers covered with diamonds,--the diamonds, these, which Sir Florian had really given her, or which she had procured from Mr.Benjamin in the clever manner described in the opening chapter.