CHAPTER IV.
Mrs.Roby Mr.Wharton, as he walked home, remembered that Mrs.Roby was to dine at his house on that evening.

During the remainder of the day, after the departure of Lopez, he had been unable to take his mind from the consideration of the proposition made to him.

He had tried the novel, and he had tried Huggins _v._ the Trustees of the Charity of St.
Ambox, a case of undeniable importance in which he was engaged on the part of Huggins, but neither was sufficiently powerful to divert his thoughts.

Throughout the morning he was imagining what he would say to Emily about this lover of hers,--in what way he would commence the conversation, and how he would express his own opinion should he find that she was in any degree favourable to the man.

Should she altogether ignore the man's pretensions, there would be no difficulty.