I wonder what it is he's going to say.

If he's going to pop, and the father in all this trouble, he's the finest fellow that ever trod." Such were her thoughts as she tapped at the door and announced in the presence of Grace that there was somebody in the hall.
"It's Major Grantly," whispered Anne, as soon as Grace had shut the door behind her.
"So I supposed by your telling her not to go into the hall.

What has he come to say ?" "How on earth can I tell you that, Annabella?
But I suppose he can have only one thing to say after all that has come and gone.

He can only have come with one object." "He wouldn't have come to me for that.

He would have asked to see herself." "But she never goes out now, and he can't see her." "Or he would have gone to them over at Hogglestock," said Miss Prettyman.