Do not let persons on this account suppose that Mrs.Robarts was a tuft-hunter, or a toad-eater.

If they do not see the difference they have yet got to study the earliest principles of human nature.
Lady Lufton called, and Lucy was struck dumb.

Fanny was particularly anxious that her ladyship's first impression should be favourable, and to effect this, she especially endeavoured to throw the two together during that visit.

But in this she was unwise.

Lady Lufton, however, had woman-craft enough not to be led into any egregious error by Lucy's silence.