CHAPTER VI.
Mr.Harold Smith's Lecture On the whole the party at Chaldicotes was very pleasant, and the time passed away quickly enough.

Mr.Robarts's chief friend there, independently of Mr.Sowerby, was Miss Dunstable, who seemed to take a great fancy to him, whereas she was not very accessible to the blandishments of Mr.Supplehouse, nor more specially courteous even to her host than good manners required of her.

But then Mr.
Supplehouse and Mr.Sowerby were both bachelors, while Mark Robarts was a married man.

With Mr.Sowerby Robarts had more than one communication respecting Lord Lufton and his affairs, which he would willingly have avoided had it been possible.

Sowerby was one of those men who are always mixing up business with pleasure, and who have usually some scheme in their mind which requires forwarding.