But his uneasiness increased as time went on; the travelling seemed intolerably tardy.

He had to decide what his course would be on reaching Dunfield, and decision was not easy.

To go straight to the house might result in painful embarrassments; it would at all events be better first to make inquiries elsewhere.

Could he have recourse to Beatrice?
At first the suggestion did not recommend itself, but nothing better came into his mind, and, as his impatience grew, the obstacles seemed so trifling that he overlooked them.

He remembered that the address of the Baxendales was unknown to him; but it could easily be discovered.