"Mamma," she said, "you don't mean it!" "I do mean it, Clara.

Why should I not mean it ?" "She is the greatest vixen in all London." "Oh, Clara!" said Augusta.
"And such a liar," said Mrs.Hittaway.
There came a look of pain across Lady Fawn's face, for Lady Fawn believed in her eldest daughter.

But yet she intended to fight her ground on a matter so important to her as was this.

"There is no word in the English language," she said, "which conveys to me so little of defined meaning as that word vixen.

If you can, tell me what you mean, Clara." "Stop it, mamma." "But why should I stop it,--even if I could ?" "You don't know her, mamma." "She has visited at Fawn Court, more than once.