And when anybody at all connected with me has come to Cheltenham I always have asked them to dine, and then I have Gubbins's man to come and wait at table,--as you know." "Of all men in the world Mr Grey is the last to think about it." "That should only make me the more careful.

But I think it would perhaps be more comfortable if he were to come in the evening." "Much more comfortable, aunt." "I suppose he will be here in the afternoon, before dinner, and we had better wait at home for him.

I dare say he'll want to see you alone, and therefore I'll retire to my own rooms,"-- looking over the stables! Dear old lady.

"But if you wish it, I will receive him first--and then Martha,"-- Martha was Alice's maid--"can fetch you down." This discussion as to the propriety or impropriety of giving her lover a dinner had not been pleasant to Alice, but, nevertheless, when it was over she felt grateful to Lady Macleod.

There was an attempt in the arrangement to make Mr Grey's visit as little painful as possible; and though such a discussion at such a time might as well have been avoided, the decision to which her ladyship had at last come with reference both to the dinner and the management of the visit was, no doubt, the right one.
Lady Macleod had been quite correct in all her anticipations.