It would be odd if they would not come the rest to meet him.

He turned his mind to other subjects.

Still he wished he could be quite sure that Arthur's innocent "see you again to-morrow" had no double meaning for him.
The railway took him as far as Blankington Junction, about five miles from Grandcourt; and, as it would be some time before a Grandcourt train came up, he decided, after seeing his effects into a cab, to take advantage of the fine, frosty afternoon, and complete his journey on foot.

He was, in fact, beginning to grow a little depressed, and the exercise would brace him up.

He had, foolishly enough, looked forward to a somewhat different kind of advent, dropping, perhaps, with some little _eclat_ on a school where Arthur had already proclaimed his fame among the boys, and where Grover had prepared him a welcome among the masters.