Should he go over to-day and deliver it in person?
Among his letters was a scrawling, illegible note, already several days old, from Colonel Bellairs, Fay's father, about the right of way.

The matter, it seemed, was more urgent than Wentworth had realised.

Any matter pertaining to Colonel Bellairs was always, in the opinion of the latter, of momentous urgency.
Colonel Bellairs asked Wentworth to come over to luncheon the first day he could, and to walk over the debatable ground with him.
Wentworth looked at his watch, started up and rang the bell, and ordered his cob Conrad to be brought round at once..