He is really coming in ten days, he says.
May 9.

Four p.m .-- I am so agitated I can scarcely write, and yet am particularly impelled to do so before leaving my room.

It is the unexpected shape of an expected event which has caused my absurd excitement, which proves me almost as much a school-girl as Caroline.
M.de la Feste was not, as we understood, to have come till to-morrow; but he is here--just arrived.

All household directions have devolved upon me, for my father, not thinking M.de la Feste would appear before us for another four-and-twenty hours, left home before post time to attend a distant consecration; and hence Caroline and I were in no small excitement when Charles's letter was opened, and we read that he had been unexpectedly favoured in the dispatch of his studio work, and would follow his letter in a few hours.

We sent the covered carriage to meet the train indicated, and waited like two newly strung harps for the first sound of the returning wheels.