I am here with Edgar.

It is entirely owing to an accident, father." "Edgar! An accident! How does he come here?
I thought he was two hundred mile off." "Yes, so he is--I mean he has got a beautiful practice two hundred miles off; he has bought it with his own money, some that came to him.
But he travelled here, and I was nearly caught in a man-trap, and that's how it is I am here.

We were just thinking of sending a messenger to let you know." Melbury did not seem to be particularly enlightened by this explanation.
"You were caught in a man-trap ?" "Yes; my dress was.

That's how it arose.

Edgar is up-stairs in his own sitting-room," she went on.