Down the drive, moving with amusing slowness and silence, a man was coming.

He was on foot.

And he was fairly well dressed.

Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation,--are quick to note the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger.
Here unquestionably was a visitor:--some such man as so often came to the Place and paid such flattering attention to the puppy.

No longer need Lad be bored by the solitude of this particular night.