We must defer our visit till the morning.

Talking of dinner," he added, "you will be ready for something after your journey, will you not ?" As Railsford was nearly famishing, he could only colour up and reply-- "Thank you." The doctor rang the bell.
"See that Mr Railsford gets dinner.

I have to go out," he added, "but you will, no doubt, make yourself at home;" and the great man withdrew, leaving the new master in a very crestfallen and disturbed state of mind.
If this was a sample of the sympathy he might expect at head-quarters, Moss's prognostications, after all, were not quite baseless.

He made the best of his solitary dinner, and then sallied out in the dark to try to find the porter's lodge once more and rescue his luggage.

That functionary was still absent, and Mark was compelled himself to haul his belongings in under cover, and leave word with the little girl that they were to be taken over to Mr Railsford's rooms as soon as her father came in.