Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope

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When Lady Mason last left the chambers of her lawyer in Lincoln's Inn, she was watched by a stout lady as she passed through the narrow passage leading from the Old to the New Square. That fact will I trust be remembered, and I need hardly say that the stout lady was Mrs. Furnival. She had heard betimes of the arrival of that letter with the Hamworth postmark, had felt assured that it was written by the hands of her hated rival, and had at once prepared for action.

"I shall leave this house today -- immediately after breakfast," she said to Miss Biggs, as they sat disconsolately at the table with the urn between them.

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