He had lost all interest in his own inquiry; and he would persist in looking for the gardener.

An hour afterwards, I heard them at high words in the conservatory, with the dog-rose once more at the bottom of the dispute.
In the meantime, it was my business to find out whether Mr.Franklin persisted in his resolution to leave us by the afternoon train.

After having been informed of the conference in my lady's room, and of how it had ended, he immediately decided on waiting to hear the news from Frizinghall.

This very natural alteration in his plans--which, with ordinary people, would have led to nothing in particular--proved, in Mr.Franklin's case, to have one objectionable result.

It left him unsettled, with a legacy of idle time on his hands, and, in so doing, it let out all the foreign sides of his character, one on the top of another, like rats out of a bag.
Now as an Italian-Englishman, now as a German-Englishman, and now as a French-Englishman, he drifted in and out of all the sitting-rooms in the house, with nothing to talk of but Miss Rachel's treatment of him; and with nobody to address himself to but me.