It was felt by every one--it could not be but felt--that there was something special in his coming.

His arrival now was not like the arrival of any one else.

Marie, with all her resolution that it should be like usual arrivals at the inn, could not avoid the making of some difference herself.

A better supper was prepared than usual; and, at the last moment, she herself assisted in preparing it.

The young men clustered round the door of the hotel earlier than usual to welcome the new-comer.