Rosamund suggested that he might stay late at Mount Laurels.
'Then he will arrive here after nightfall,' said the doctor.

'A bed is at your service, ma'am.' The offer was declined.

'I should like to have seen him to-day; but he will be home shortly.' 'He will not quit Bevisham till this Election's decided unless to hunt a stray borough vote, ma'am.' 'He goes to Mount Laurels.
'For that purpose.' 'I do not think he will persuade Colonel Halkett to vote in the Radical interest.' 'That is the probability with a landed proprietor, ma'am.

We must knock, whether the door opens or not.

Like,' the doctor laughed to himself up aloft, 'like a watchman in the night to say that he smells smoke on the premises.' 'Surely we may expect Captain Beauchamp to consult his family about so serious a step as this he is taking,' Rosamund said, with an effort to be civil.
Why should he ?' asked the impending doctor.
His head continued in the interrogative position when it had resumed its elevation.