To my indescribable surprise, they were escorted, not by Mr.Godfrey (as I had anticipated), but by the lawyer, Mr.Bruff.
"How do you do, Miss Clack ?" he said.

"I mean to stay this time." That reference to the occasion on which I had obliged him to postpone his business to mine, when we were both visiting in Montagu Square, satisfied me that the old worldling had come to Brighton with some object of his own in view.

I had prepared quite a little Paradise for my beloved Rachel--and here was the Serpent already! "Godfrey was very much vexed, Drusilla, not to be able to come with us," said my Aunt Ablewhite.

"There was something in the way which kept him in town.

Mr.Bruff volunteered to take his place, and make a holiday of it till Monday morning.