When he came down, Clara and her father were already in the dining-room, and he joined them there.
Mr.Amedroz, though he was not very quick in reading facts from the manners of those with whom he lived, had felt assured that things had gone wrong between Belton and his daughter.

He had not as yet had a minute in which to speak to Clara, but he was certain that it was so.
Indeed, it was impossible not to read terrible disappointment and deep grief in the young man's manner.

He made no attempt to conceal it, though he did not speak of it.

Through the whole evening, though he was alone for a while with the squire, and alone also for a time with Clara, he never mentioned or alluded to the subject of his rejection.

But he bore himself as though he knew and they knew--as though all the world knew that he had been rejected.