"Trust in me! trust in me!" Arnold's attention was absorbed in the very serious difficulty of announcing his arrival to Anne.

"How am I to get her out ?" he said to himself, with a look of perplexity directed at the bedroom door.
He had spoken loud enough for the waiter to hear him.

Arnold's look of perplexity was instantly reflected on the face of Mr.Bishopriggs.
The head-waiter at Craig Fernie possessed an immense experience of the manners and customs of newly-married people on their honeymoon trip.
He had been a second father (with excellent pecuniary results) to innumerable brides and bridegrooms.

He knew young married couples in all their varieties:--The couples who try to behave as if they had been married for many years; the couples who attempt no concealment, and take advice from competent authorities about them.

The couples who are bashfully talkative before third persons; the couples who are bashfully silent under similar circumstances.