John dwelt upon the name--Goddard--but it held no association for him.

It was not at all like the names he had given her in his imagination.

He wondered what she would be like and he felt nervously anxious to meet her.

Somehow, too, what he heard of the squire did not please him; he felt an immediate antagonism to Mr.Juxon, to his books, to his amateur scholarship, even to his appearance as described by Mrs.Ambrose, who said he was such a thorough Englishman and wondered how he kept his hair so smooth.
It was not long before he had an opportunity of judging for himself of what Mr.Ambrose called the recent addition to Billingsfield society.

On the very afternoon of his arrival the vicar proposed to walk up to the Hall and have a look at the library, and John readily assented.