'Arry had been granted appetising sniffs at the cookery in progress, though the youth was naturally left without precise information as to the ingredients.

The result was a surprising self-restraint on 'Arry's part.

The influence which poor Keene had so bunglingly tried to obtain over him, the more astute Mr.Rodman had compassed without difficulty; beginning with the loan of small sums, to be repaid when 'Arry attained his majority, he little by little made the prospective man of capital the creature of his directions; in something less than two more years Rodman looked to find ample recompense for his expenditure and trouble.

But that was a mere parergon; to secure Richard Mutimer was the great end steadily held in view.
Rodman and his wife came to Wanley to spend three days before all together set out for the Continent.

Adela accepted the course of things, and abandoned herself to the stream.