But who is the friend?
Do you know him?
Tell me his appearance." "I did not notice the other gentleman," replied Will, "and I can tell you nothing of him." "Will, you are a very stupid man.

But bring the gentlemen here." Dorothy had taken Will into her confidence to the extent of telling him that a gentleman would arrive at the Royal Arms who would inquire for Lady Crawford's health, and that she, Dorothy, would fully inform the gentleman upon that interesting topic.

Will may have had suspicions of his own, but if so, he kept them to himself, and at least did not know that the gentleman whom his mistress expected to see was Sir John Manners.

Neither did he suspect that fact.

Dawson had never seen Manners, and did not know he was in the neighborhood of Derby.