She had told her aunt by letter of the proposed visit, and Mrs.Winterfield had expressed her approbation, saying that she hoped it would lead to good results.

Of what good results could her aunt be thinking?
The one probable good result would surely be this--that relations so nearly connected should know each other.

Why should there be any fuss made about such a visit?
But, nevertheless, Clara, though she made no outward fuss, knew that inwardly she was not as calm about the man's coming as she would have wished herself to be.
He arrived about five o'clock in a gig from Taunton.

Five was the ordinary dinner hour at Belton, but it had been postponed till six on this day, in the hope that the cousin might make his appearance at any rate by that hour.

Mr.Amedroz had uttered various complaints as to the visitor's heartlessness in not having written to name the hour of his arrival, and was manifestly intending to make the most of the grievance should he not present himself before six;--but this indulgence was cut short by the sound of the gig wheels.