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`` I know nothing about diamonds myself , but that is what they say they were worth . '' `` Her leddyship 's her ain sell seems nae to ha ' been in ain story aboot the box , Muster Greystock ? '' But Frank could not stand to be cross-questioned on this delicate matter , and walked off , saying that as the thieves had not yet been tried for the robbery , the less said about it the better . At four o'clock on that afternoon he had not seen Lizzie , and then he received a message from her to the effect that she was still so unwell from the fatigue of her journey that she could bear no one with her but her child . She hoped that her cousin was quite comfortable , and that she might be able to see him after breakfast on the following day . But Frank was determined to leave Portray very early on the following day , and therefore wrote a note to his cousin . He begged that she would not disturb herself , that he would leave the castle the next morning before she could be up , and that he had only further to remind her that she must come up to London at once as soon as she should be summoned for the trial of Mr. Benjamin and his comrade .