I am inclined to think that the best mode of bringing her round at this moment would have been a course of visits from her cousin George, and a series of letters from her cousin Kate.

Lady Macleod's injunctions would certainly not bring her round.
After ten days, ten terrible days, devoted to discussions on matrimony in the morning, and to the book of wrath in the evening,--relieved by two tea-parties, in which the sins of Cheltenham were discussed at length,--Lady Macleod herself got a letter from Mr Grey.

Mr Grey's kindest compliments to Lady Macleod.
He believed that Lady Macleod was aware of the circumstances of his engagement with Miss Vavasor.

Might he call on Miss Vavasor at Lady Macleod's house in Cheltenham?
and might he also hope to have the pleasure of making Lady Macleod's acquaintance?
Alice had been in the room when her aunt received this letter, but her aunt had said nothing, and Alice had not known from whom the letter had come.
When her aunt crept away with it after breakfast she had suspected nothing, and had never imagined that Lady Macleod, in the privacy of her own room looking out upon the stables, had addressed a letter to Nethercoats.

But such a letter had been addressed to Nethercoats, and Mr Grey had been informed that he would be received in Paramount Crescent with great pleasure.
Mr Grey had even indicated the day on which he would come, and on the morning of that day Lady Macleod had presided over the two teacups in a state of nervous excitement which was quite visible to Alice.
More than once Alice asked little questions, not supposing that she was specially concerned in the matter which had caused her aunt's fidgety restlessness, but observing it so plainly that it was almost impossible not to allude to it.