If Nora could have known it all, Nora ought to have been very grateful, for Mr.Glascock got into a cab in Eccleston Square and had himself driven direct to Curzon Street.

He himself believed that he was at that moment only doing the thing which he had for some time past resolved that he would do; but we perhaps may be justified in thinking that the actual resolution was first fixed by the discretion of Lady Milborough's communication.
At any rate he arrived in Curzon Street with his mind fully resolved, and had spent the minutes in the cab considering how he had better perform the business in hand.
He was at once shown into the drawing-room, where he found the two sisters, and Mrs.Trevelyan, as soon as she saw him, understood the purpose of his coming.

There was an air of determination about him, a manifest intention of doing something, an absence of that vagueness which almost always flavours a morning visit.

This was so strongly marked that Mrs.Trevelyan felt that she would have been almost justified in getting up and declaring that, as this visit was paid to her sister, she would retire.

But any such declaration on her part was unnecessary, as Mr.Glascock had not been in the room three minutes before he asked her to go.