Your suppositions are always right.

And what will you think when I tell you that I am to sleep at the palace on Saturday?
You know that there is to be a lecture in Barchester on that day.
Well; we must all go, of course, as Harold Smith, one of our set here, is to give it.

And now it turns out that we cannot get back the same night because there is no moon; and Mrs.Bishop would not allow that my cloth should be contaminated by an hotel;--very kind and considerate, is it not?
But I have a more astounding piece of news for you than this.

There is to be a great party at Gatherum Castle next week, and they have talked me over into accepting an invitation which the duke sent expressly to me.

I refused at first; but everybody here said that my doing so would be so strange; and then they all wanted to know my reason.
When I came to render it, I did not know what reason I had to give.