"And when that unfortunate girl, her niece, was to be married to poor Sir Griffin Tewett, I gave her a whole service of plate."
"What unparalleled generosity!"
"Would you believe she has taken the whole for her own base purposes? And then what do you think she has done?"
"My dear Lady Eustace, hardly anything would astonish me."
Lizzie suddenly found a difficulty in describing to her friend the fact that Mrs. Carbuncle was endeavouring to turn her out of the house, without also alluding to her own troubles about the robbery. "She has actually told me," she continued, "that I must leave the house without a day's warning. But I believe the truth is, that she has run so much into debt that she cannot remain."
"I know that she is very much in debt, Lady Eustace."
"But she owed me some civility. Instead of that, she has treated me with nothing but insolence. And why, do you think? It is all because I would not allow her to take that poor, insane young woman to Portray Castle."
"You don't mean that she asked to go there?"
"She did, though."
"I never heard such impertinence in my life,—never," said Mr. Emilius, again opening his eyes and shaking his head.