Mr.Glascock had declared that he would take a walk, and in the course of the afternoon had expressed high approval of Mrs.
Crocket's culinary skill.

When Mrs.Crocket heard that she had entertained the son of a lord, she was very loud in her praise of the manner in which he had eaten two mutton chops and called for a third.
He had thought it no disgrace to apply himself to the second half of an apple pie, and had professed himself to be an ardent admirer of Devonshire cream.

"It's them counter-skippers as turns up their little noses at the victuals as is set before them," said Mrs.
Crocket.
After his dinner Mr.Glascock had returned to the Clock House, and had been sitting there for an hour with Mrs.Stanbury, not much to her delight or to his, when the carriage was driven up to the door.
"He is to go back to Lessboro' to-night," said Mrs.Stanbury in a whisper.
"Of course you must see him before he goes," said Mrs.Trevelyan to her sister.

There had, as was natural, been very much said between the two sisters about Mr.Glascock.Nora had abstained from asserting in any decided way that she disliked the man, and had always absolutely refused to allow Hugh Stanbury's name to be mixed up with the question.

Whatever might be her own thoughts about Hugh Stanbury she had kept them even from her sister.