He also was very intimate with Mr.Sowerby, and was decidedly one of the Chaldicotes set.

And there were many others included in the stigma whose sins were political or religious rather than moral.

But they were gall and wormwood to Lady Lufton, who regarded them as children of the Lost One, and who grieved with a mother's grief when she knew that her son was among them, and felt all a patron's anger when she heard that her clerical protege was about to seek such society.

Mrs.Robarts might well say that Lady Lufton would be annoyed.
"You won't call at the house before you go, will you ?" the wife asked on the following morning.

He was to start after lunch on that day, driving himself in his own gig, so as to reach Chaldicotes, some twenty-four miles distant, before dinner.
"No, I think not.