Before lunch had come all the party knew what was to happen,--except Adelaide herself.

She, too, perceived that something was in the wind, that there was some stir, some discomfort, some secret affair forward, or some event expected which made them all uneasy;--and she did connect it with the presence of Mr.Spooner.But, in pitiable ignorance of the facts that were clear enough to everybody else, she went on watching and wondering, with a half-formed idea that the house would be more pleasant as soon as Mr.Spooner should have taken his departure.

He was to go after lunch.

But on such occasions there is, of course, a latitude, and "after lunch" may be stretched at any rate to the five o'clock tea.

At three o'clock Mr.Spooner was still hanging about.
Madame Goesler and Phineas, with an openly declared intention of friendly intercourse, had gone out to walk together.