We must wait until he is found.' They went indoors and changed their clothes; after which they started for the manor-house, reaching it about ten o'clock.

Besides their sister there were only three guests; an adjoining landowner and his wife, and the infirm old rector.
Rosa, although she had parted from them so recently, grasped their hands in an ecstatic, brimming, joyful manner, as if she had not seen them for years.

'You look pale,' she said.
The brothers answered that they had had a long walk, and were somewhat tired.

Everybody in the room seemed charged full with some sort of interesting knowledge: the squire's neighbour and his wife looked wisely around; and Fellmer himself played the part of host with a preoccupied bearing which approached fervour.

They left at eleven, not accepting the carriage offered, the distance being so short and the roads dry.