"I know all about it.

Belton and Mr.Green have been dear friends always.

I can't trust my own lawyer any longer." In all which the old squire showed much ingratitude.

It will, however, be understood that these suspicions were rife before the time of Belton's visit to the family estate.
Some four or five days before Christmas there came a visitor to Mr.
Green with whom the reader is acquainted, and who was no less a man than the Member for Perivale.

Captain Aylmer, when Clara parted from him on the morning of her return to Belton Castle, had resolved that he would repeat his offer of marriage by letter.