Again Lady Monk sat silent. She had a plan in her head,--a plan that might, as she thought, give to her nephew one more chance. But she hesitated before she could bring herself to explain it in detail. At first she had lent a little aid to this desired abduction of Mr. Palliser's wife, but in lending it had said no word upon the subject. During the last season she had succeeded in getting Lady Glencora to her house in London, and had taken care that Burgo should meet her there. Then a hint or two had been spoken, and Lady Glencora had been asked to Monkshade. Lady Glencora, as we know, did not go to Monkshade, and Lady Monk had then been baffled. But she did not therefore give up the game. Having now thought of it so much, she began to speak of it more boldly, and had procured money for her nephew that he might thereby be enabled to carry off the woman. But though this had been well understood between them, though words had been spoken which were sufficiently explicit, the plan had not been openly discussed. Lady Monk had known nothing of the mode in which Lady Glencora was to have been carried off after her party, nor whither she was to have been taken. But now,--now she must arrange it herself, and have a scheme of her own, or else the thing must fail absolutely. Even she was almost reluctant to speak out plainly to her nephew on such a subject. What if he should be false to her, and tell of her? But when a woman has made such schemes, nothing distresses her so sadly as their failure. She would risk all rather than that Mr. Palliser should keep his wife.

Again Lady Monk sat silent. She had a plan in her head, that might, she thought, give her nephew one more chance. But she hesitated before she could bring herself to explain it in detail.
At first she had lent a little aid to this desired abduction of Mr. Palliser's wife. She had succeeded in getting Lady Glencora to her house in London, and had taken care that Burgo should meet her there. Then Lady Glencora had been asked to Monkshade. Lady Glencora, as we know, did not go to Monkshade, and Lady Monk had been baffled. But she did not therefore give up the game.
Now she must arrange it herself, and have a scheme of her own, or else the thing must fail. Yet she was almost reluctant to speak out plainly to her nephew.
