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THE outward signs of Lady Eliza's wrath endured for a few days after / Crauford's untimely mistake, and then began to die a lingering death; / but her determination that the enemy should make amends was unabated. / In her heart, she did not believe that Cecilia cared for her suitor, / and that being the case, she knew her well enough to be sure that / nothing would make her marry him. For this she was both glad and sorry. / It would have been easy, as Crauford had applied to her, to discover / the state of the girl's feelings; and should she find her unwilling to / accept him, convey the fact to Fullarton and so end the matter.
But that course was not at all to her mind; Lady Fordyce should, if / Cecilia were so inclined, pay for her words. She should write the / letter her son had undertaken to procure, and he should present it and / be refused. She was thinking of that as she sat on a bench in the / garden at Morphie, and she smiled rather fiercely.