It awakened Aunt Dorothy, and she began to live her life anew, in brightness, as she steeped her soul in the youth and joyousness of Dorothy Vernon's song.
I have spoken before in this chronicle of Will Dawson.

He was a Conformer.
Possibly it was by reason of his religious faith that he did not share the general enmity that existed in Haddon Hall against the house of Rutland.
He did not, at the time of which I speak, know Sir John Manners, and he did not suspect that the heir to Rutland was the man who had of late been causing so much trouble to the house of Vernon.

At least, if he did suspect it, no one knew of his suspicions.
Sir George made a great effort to learn who the mysterious interloper was, but he wholly failed to obtain any clew to his identity.

He had jumped to the conclusion that Dorothy's mysterious lover was a man of low degree.

He had taken for granted that he was an adventurer whose station and person precluded him from openly wooing his daughter.