From the contemplation of these sights the sulky housekeeper drove him.

Her family was about to arrive.

There was my lady the Countess, and my lord and his brother, and the young ladies, and the Baroness, who was to have the state bedroom.

Who was the Baroness?
The Baroness Bernstein, the young ladies' aunt.

Harry wrote down his name on a paper from his own pocket-book, and laid it on a table in the hall.
"Henry Esmond Warrington, of Castlewood, in Virginia, arrived in England yesterday--staying at the Three Castles in the village." The lackeys rose up from their cards to open the door to him, in order to get their "wails," and Gumbo quitted the bench at the gate, where he had been talking with old Lockwood, the porter, who took Harry's guinea, hardly knowing the meaning of the gift.