He immediately won the heart of Mrs.Ambrose on account of his extremely neat appearance.

There was no foreign blood in him, she was sure.

He had large clean hands with large and polished nails.

He wore very well made clothes, and he spoke like a gentleman.
The vicar, too, was at once prepossessed in his favour, and even little Eleanor, who was generally very shy before strangers, looked at him admiringly and showed little of her usual bashfulness.

But Mrs.Goddard seemed ill at ease and tried to keep out of the conversation as much as possible.
"There have been great rejoicings at the prospect of your arrival," said the vicar when the new-comer had been introduced to both the ladies.