Her aim was to capture Lambert as her husband; and her plan, to accomplish her wish by working on the heart-hunger he most probably felt, owing to the loss of Agnes Pine.

If he loved that lady in a chivalrous fashion--and Miss Greeby believed that he did--she was absolutely lost to him as the wife of another man.
Lambert would never degrade her into a divorce court appearance.

And perhaps, after all, as Miss Greeby thought hopefully, his love for Sir Hubert's wife might have turned to scorn that she had preferred money to true love.

But then, again, as Miss Greeby remembered, with a darkening face, Agnes had married the millionaire so as to save the family estates from being sold.

Rank has its obligation, and Lambert might approve of the sacrifice, since he was the next heir to the Garvington title.