"Yes, they are both there," said Osborne.

"Trevelyan has just gone out in a huff.

She'll never be able to go on living with him.

Anybody can see that with half an eye." Then he had passed on, and Hugh Stanbury knocked at the door.
He was shown up into the drawing-room, and found both the sisters there; but he could see that Mrs.Trevelyan had been in tears.

The avowed purpose of his visit,--that is, the purpose which he had avowed to himself,--was to talk about his sister Dorothy.