Mrs.Pagnell wrote at her desk, and fussed, and ordered the posting chariot, and bewailed herself submissively; for it was the Countess of Ormont speaking when Aminta delivered commands, and the only grievance she dared to mutter was 'the unexpectedness.' Her letters having been despatched, she was amazed in the late evening to hear Aminta give the footman orders for the chariot to be ready at the door an hour earlier than the hour previously appointed.

She remonstrated.
Aminta simply observed that it would cause less inconvenience to all parties.

A suspicion of her aunt's proceedings was confirmed by the good woman's flustered state.

She refrained from smiling.
She would have mustered courage to invite Matthew Weyburn as her escort, if he had been at hand.

He was attending to his affairs with lawyers--mainly with his friend Mr.Abner.She studied map and gazetteer till late into the night.