She likes the place, so does Lilian.

I asked them to meet you all here to-night; but Mrs.
Ashleigh was tired.

The last of the furniture was to arrive today; and though dear Mrs.Ashleigh is an undecided character, she is not inactive.

But it is not only the planning where to put tables and chairs that would have tried her today: she has had Mr.Vigors on her hands all the afternoon, and he has been--here's her little note--what are the words?
No doubt 'most overpowering and oppressive;' no, 'most kind and attentive,'-- different words, but, as applied to Mr.Vigors, they mean the same thing.
"And now, next Monday---we must leave them in peace till then--you will all call on the Ashleighs.

The Hill knows what is due to itself; it cannot delegate to Mr.Vigors, a respectable man indeed, but who does not belong to its set, its own proper course of action towards those who would shelter themselves on its bosom.