He wired from Port Said that he would come straight to Priorsford.

I wonder whether I should take rooms for him in the Hydro, or in one of these nice old hotels in the Nethergate?
I wish I could crush him into Hillview, but there isn't any room, alas!" "I wish," said Jean, and stopped.

She had wanted in her hospitable way to say that Pamela's brother must come to The Rigs, but she checked the impulse with a fear that it was an absurd proposal.

She was immensely interested in this brother of Pamela's.

All she had heard of him appealed to her imagination, for Jean, cumbered as she was with domestic cares, had an adventurous spirit, and thrilled to hear of the perils of the mountains, the treks behind the ranges for something hidden, all the daring escapades of an adventure-loving young man with time and money at his disposal.