The mare looks hot.

Why don't you put her up at 'The Plough' and let her have a feed and a rub down ?" And as Cedric approved of this arrangement, Malcolm was obliged to acquiesce, though he was inwardly bored by the delay.
They had been out for hours, and he was rather weary of the lad's chatter.

Some new acquaintances of the name of Jacobi had been the subject of Cedric's talk--a brother and sister living in Gresham Gardens.

It was in vain that Malcolm had repeated more than once that he knew nothing of them.

Cedric would not take the hint, and he held forth on the brother's cleverness and the sister's beauty.