He sat respectfully on the seat opposite her, with a travelling bag on his knees, and sighed occasionally.

When she had secured her seat in the railway carriage he brought her sandwiches, buns, and sweetmeats enough for a voyage to New York.

Alice waved her hand to him as the train moved away.
She reached Agworth at one o'clock; Richard had been pacing the platform impatiently for twenty minutes.

Porters were eager to do his bidding, and his instructions to them were suavely imperative.
'They know me,' he remarked to Alice, with his air of satisfaction.

'I suppose you're half frozen?
I've got a foot-warmer in the trap.' The carriage promised to Adela was a luxury Richard had not ventured to allow himself.