We quite agree.

We have a most complete and thorough explanation, and we know what course to take .-- Why don't you taste your tenant's wine?
It's really very good.' 'Pray who,' said Mr Haredale, 'have aided Emma, or your son?
Who are their go-betweens, and agents--do you know ?' 'All the good people hereabouts--the neighbourhood in general, I think,' returned the other, with his most affable smile.

'The messenger I sent to you to-day, foremost among them all.' 'The idiot?
Barnaby ?' 'You are surprised?
I am glad of that, for I was rather so myself.

Yes.
I wrung that from his mother--a very decent sort of woman--from whom, indeed, I chiefly learnt how serious the matter had become, and so determined to ride out here to-day, and hold a parley with you on this neutral ground .-- You're stouter than you used to be, Haredale, but you look extremely well.' 'Our business, I presume, is nearly at an end,' said Mr Haredale, with an expression of impatience he was at no pains to conceal.

'Trust me, Mr Chester, my niece shall change from this time.