Richmond? When Augusta said something as to letters which might
have been written, Lucy snubbed her. "Who says he didn't write? He
did write. If I am contented, why should you complain?" "Oh, I don't
complain," said Augusta.

Then questions were asked as to the future,--questions to which Lady
Fawn had a right to demand an answer. What did Mr. Greystock propose
to do now? Then Lucy broke down, sobbing, crying, triumphing, with
mingled love and happiness. She was to go to the deanery. Frank had
brought with him a little note to her from his mother, in which she
was invited to make the deanery at Bobsborough her home for the
present.

"And you are to go away just when you've come?" asked Nina.

"Stay with us a month, my dear," said Lady Fawn, "just to let people
know that we are friends, and after that the deanery will be the best
home for you." And so it was arranged.

* * * * *

It need only be further said, in completing the history of Lucy
Morris as far as it can be completed in these pages, that she did
go to the deanery, and that there she was received with all the
affection which Mrs. Greystock could show to an adopted daughter. Her
quarrel had never been with Lucy personally,--but with the untoward
fact that her son would not marry money. At the deanery she remained
for fifteen happy months, and then became Mrs. Greystock, with a bevy
of Fawn bridesmaids around her. As the personages of a chronicle such
as this should all be made to operate backwards and forwards on each
other from the beginning to the end, it would have been desirable
that the chronicler should have been able to report that the ceremony
was celebrated by Mr. Emilius. But as the wedding did not take place
till the end of the summer, and as Mr. Emilius at that time never
remained in town, after the season was over, this was impossible. It
was the Dean of Bobsborough, assisted by one of the minor canons, who
performed the service.

CHAPTER LXXVIII

The Trial

Having told the tale of Lucy Morris to the end, the chronicler must
now go back to the more important persons of this history. It was
still early in April when Lizzie Eustace was taken down to Scotland
by her cousin, and the trial of Mr. Benjamin and Mr. Smiler was fixed
to take place at the Central Criminal Court about the middle of May.
Early in May the attorneys for the prosecution applied to Greystock,
asking him whether he would make arrangements for