He will hardly trouble himself to write to me, unless he takes up some new freak to show me that he is my master." "And what does Colonel Osborne say ?" "He is coming here." "Coming here ?" almost shouted Nora.
"Yes; absolutely here.

Does it sound to you as if Lucifer himself were about to show his face?
The fact is, he happens to have a friend in the neighbourhood whom he has long promised to visit; and as he must be at Lessboro', he does not choose to go away without the compliment of a call.

It will be as much to you as to me." "I don't want to see him in the least," said Nora.
"There is his letter.

As you seem to be so suspicious, you had better read it." Then Nora read it.
"And there is a copy of my answer," said Mrs.Trevelyan.

"I shall keep both, because I know so well what ill-natured things people will say." "Dear Emily, do not send it," said Nora.
"Indeed I shall.