Why did he leave England at all just now ?' 'Perhaps it was to see you.' 'He should have waited; it would not have been so dreadfully long to May or June.

Charlotte, how can a man who does such a hare-brained thing as this be deemed trustworthy in an important work like that of rebuilding Stancy Castle ?' There was such stress in the inquiry that, whatever factitiousness had gone before, Charlotte perceived Paula to be at last speaking her mind; and it seemed as if Somerset must have considerably lost ground in her opinion, or she would not have criticized him thus.
'My brother will tell us full particulars when he comes: perhaps it is not at all as we suppose,' said Charlotte.

She strained her eyes across the Platz and added, 'He ought to have been here before this time.' While they waited and talked, Paula still observing the storks, the hotel omnibus came round the corner from the station.

'I believe he has arrived,' resumed Miss De Stancy; 'I see something that looks like his portmanteau on the top of the omnibus....

Yes; it is his baggage.