You are to be here by half-past eleven.' 'That's rather early,' replied the young man, though in a submissive tone.
'It's the hour I appoint.

Samuel Barmby will be with you, and he will know the arrangement; but I tell you now, so that there may be no misunderstanding.' Nancy sat in a very upright position, displeasure plain upon her countenance.

But she made no remark.

Horace, who had his reasons for desiring to preserve a genial tone, affected acquiescence.

Presently he and his sister went upstairs to the drawing-room, where they sat down at a distance apart--Nancy by the window, gazing at the warm clouds above the roofs opposite, the young man in a corner which the dusk already shadowed.