She had deputed Colonel Arthur to conduct Miss Mattock and Miss Barrow to their carriage, and she supposed the sentence might have a mysterious reference to the plan she had formed; therefore it might be a punishable offence.

Her small round eyes were wide-open, her head was up and high.
She was easily appeased, too easily.
'The question of rain, madam,' he replied to her repetition of his words.

'I dare say that was what I had in my mind, hearing Mr.Mattock and Mr.Rockney agree to walk in company to their clubs.' He proposed to them that they should delay the march on a visit to his cabin near the clouds.

They were forced to decline his invitation to the gentle lion's mouth; as did Mr.Rumford, very briskly and thankfully.
Mr.Rockney was taken away by Mr.and Mrs.Marbury Dyke.

So the party separated, and the Englishmen were together, and the Irishmen together; and hardly a syllable relating to the Englishmen did the Irishmen say, beyond an allusion to an accident to John Mattock's yacht off the Irish west-coast last autumn; but the Irishmen were subjected to some remarks by the Englishmen, wherein their qualities as individuals and specimens of a race were critically and neatly packed.