If Lady Eustace was such a reprobate as was now represented, why had not Lord Fawn heard the truth?
And then she had already given in her own adhesion, and had promised to call.

"Do you mean that you won't go to her ?" said Lady Fawn.
"As Lady Eustace,--certainly not.

If Frederic does marry her, of course I must know her.

That's a different thing.

One has to make the best one can of a bad bargain.