It was so, in fact.

Two men whom, on arriving, they found in the drawing-room Adela knew by fame, and the next to enter was a lady whose singing she had heard with rapture at a concert on the evening before.

She was talking with this lady when a new announcement fell upon her ear, a name which caused her to start and gaze towards the door.

Impossible for her to guard against this display of emotion; the name she heard so distinctly seemed an unreal utterance, a fancy of her brain, or else it belonged to another than the one she knew.

But there was no such illusion; he whom she saw enter was assuredly Hubert Eldon.
A few hot seconds only seemed to intervene before she was called upon to acknowledge him, for Mrs.Boscobel was presenting him to her.
'I have had the pleasure of meeting Mrs.Mutimer before,' Hubert said as soon as he saw that Adela in voice and look recognised their acquaintance.
Mrs.Boscobel was evidently surprised.