'The ringers were told to begin as soon as the train signalled.' As he spoke a carriage drew up to the hotel-door, followed by another with the maid and luggage.

The inmates crowded to the bow-window, except Dairyman Jinks, who had become absorbed in his own reflections.
'What be they stopping here for ?' asked one of the previous speakers.
'They are going to stay here to-night,' said Havill.

'They have come quite unexpectedly, and the castle is in such a state of turmoil that there is not a single carpet down, or room for them to use.

We shall get two or three in order by next week.' 'Two little people like them will be lost in the chammers of that wandering place!' satirized Dairyman Jinks.

'They will be bound to have a randy every fortnight to keep the moth out of the furniture!' By this time Somerset was handing out the wife of his bosom, and Dairyman Jinks went on: 'That's no more Miss Power that was, than my niece's daughter Kezia is Miss Power--in short it is a different woman altogether!' 'There is no mistake about the woman,' said the landlord; 'it is her fur clothes that make her look so like a caterpillar on end.