Then they parted, and the signs of affection between them were not satisfactory.
The door was hardly closed behind him before Lizzie began to declare to herself that he shouldn't escape her.

It was not yet twenty-four hours since she had been telling herself that she did not like the engagement and would break it off; and now she was stamping her little feet, and clenching her little hands, and swearing to herself by all her gods, that this wretched, timid lordling should not get out of her net.

She did, in truth, despise him because he would not clutch the jewels.

She looked upon him as mean and paltry because he was willing to submit to Mr.Camperdown.But still she was prompted to demand all that could be demanded from her engagement,--because she thought that she perceived a something in him which might produce in him a desire to be relieved from it.

No! he should not be relieved.