CHAPTER XXIX.
WAITING FOR REVENGE.
There was a slight, only a very slight difference of opinion between Lady Darrell and her aunt after the reading of the will. Lady Hampton would fain have given up the Elms, and have gone to live at Darrell Court.
"Sir Oswald's will is a very just one," she said, "admirable in every respect; but I should never dream, were I in your place, Elinor, of keeping that proud girl here. Let her go. I will come and live with you. I shall make a better chaperon than that poor, faded Miss Hastings."
But Lady Darrell was eager to taste the sweets of power, and she knew how completely her aunt would take every vestige of it from her.
She declared her intention to adhere most strictly to the terms of the will.
"And, aunt," she continued, with firmness quite new to her, "it would be so much better, I think, for you to keep at the Elms. People might make strange remarks if you came here to live with me."
Lady Hampton was shrewd enough to see that she must abide by her niece's decision.
The captain was to remain only two days at Darrell Court, and Lady Darrell was anxious to spend some little time with him.