CHAPTER IX.
Showing What the Miss Fawns Said, and What Mrs.Hittaway Thought In the way of duty Lord Fawn was a Hercules,--not, indeed, "climbing trees in the Hesperides," but achieving enterprises which, to other men, if not impossible, would have been so unpalatable as to have been put aside as impracticable.

On the Monday morning, after he was accepted by Lady Eustace, he was with his mother at Fawn Court before he went down to the India Office.
He had at least been very honest in the description he had given of his own circumstances to the lady whom he intended to marry.

He had told her the exact truth; and though she, with all her cleverness, had not been able to realise the facts when related to her so suddenly, still enough had been said to make it quite clear that, when details of business should hereafter be discussed in a less hurried manner, he would be able to say that he had explained all his circumstances before he had made his offer.

And he had been careful, too, as to her affairs.

He had ascertained that her late husband had certainly settled upon her for life an estate worth four thousand a year.