And then he had also felt that he could have no greater triumph than "walking atop of John Grey," as he called it.

His return for the Chelsea Districts would hardly be sweeter to him than that.
"You must have thought I had vanished out of the world," said George, coming up to her with his extended hand.
Alice was confused, and hardly knew how to address him.

"Somebody told me that you were shooting," she said after a pause.
"So I was, but my shooting is not like the shooting of your great Nimrods,--men who are hunters upon the earth.

Two days among the grouse and two more among the partridges are about the extent of it.
Capel Court is the preserve in which I am usually to be found." Alice knew nothing of Capel Court, and said, "Oh, indeed." "Have you heard from Kate ?" George asked.
"Yes, once or twice; she is still at Yarmouth with Aunt Greenow." "And is going to Norwich, as she says.

Kate seems to have made a league with Aunt Greenow.