In those days, when all these details were being settled, the widow was the most popular personage in Bath.
Matters went smoothly with Mrs.Vrain in every respect.

The will was duly proved, the twenty thousand pounds was duly paid over; so, finding herself rich, the widow came with her father to take up her abode in London.

When settled there one of her first acts was to send a note to Lucian, telling him that she was in town.

The good looks of the young man had made a considerable impression on Mrs.Vrain, and she appeared anxious to renew the acquaintance, although it had been so inauspiciously begun in the purlieus of the police courts.
On his part, Lucian lost no time in paying his respects, for after the searching inquiry conducted by the Sirius Assurance Company, out of which ordeal Mrs.Vrain had emerged unscathed, he began to think that he had been too hasty in condemning the little widow.

So he called upon her almost immediately after receiving the invitation, and found her, after the lapse of three months, as pretty as ever, and clothed in less heavy mourning.
"It's real sweet of you to call, Mr.Denzil," said she vivaciously.