And so they waited till the terminus was almost deserted, and the last cab had driven off, when, suddenly, dashing up the station yard out of another, came Ascott.
He was so sorry, so very sorry, downright grieved, at having kept his aunts waiting.

But his watch was wrong--some fellows at dinner detained him--the train was before its time surely.

In fact, his aunts never quite made out what the excuse was; but they looked into his bright handsome face, and their wrath melted like clouds before the sun.

He was so gentlemanly, so well dressed--much better dressed than even at Stowbury--and he seemed so unfeignedly glad to see them.
He handed them all into the cab--even Elizabeth.

though whispering meanwhile to his Aunt Hilary, "What on earth did you bring her for ?" and their was just going to leap on to the box himself, when he stopped to ask "Where he should tell cabby to drive to ?" "Where to ?" repeated his aunts in undisguised astonishment.