The servant who met him wore the same livery as the man up there"-- with a nod toward the box.
"It was one of Lady Maria's servants," said Emily; "I have seen him in South Audley Street.

And Lord Walderhurst was to be at Mallowe.

Lady Maria mentioned it." "There, mother!" exclaimed Cora.
"Well, of course if he is to be there, it will make it interesting," returned her mother, in a tone in which lurked an admission of relief.
Emily wondered if she had wanted to go somewhere else and had been firmly directed toward Mallowe by her daughter.
"We heard a great deal of him in London this season," Mrs.Brooks went on.
Miss Cora Brooke laughed.
"We heard that at least half a dozen people were determined to marry him," she remarked with pretty scorn.

"I should think that to meet a girl who was indifferent might be good for him." "Don't be too indifferent, Cora," said her mother, with ingenuous ineptness.
It was a very stupid bit of revelation, and Miss Brooke's eyes flashed.
If Emily Fox-Seton had been a sharp woman, she would have observed that, if the _role_ of indifferent and piquant young person could be made dangerous to Lord Walderhurst, it would be made so during this visit.
The man was in peril from this beauty from Cincinnati and her rather indiscreet mother, though upon the whole, the indiscreet maternal parent might unconsciously form his protection.
But Emily only laughed amiably, as at a humorous remark.

She was ready to accept almost anything as humour.
"Well, he _would_ be a great match for any girl," she said.