He had promised to come on Saturday and return on Monday,--and, unless warned, would too probably stick to his plan and throw over the Longestaffes and their dinner-party.

Again if he were told to come simply for the Monday, he would throw over the chance of wooing her on the Sunday.

It was Lady Carbury's desire to get him down for as long a period as was possible, and nothing surely would so tend to bring him and to keep him, as a knowledge that the heiress was already in the neighbourhood.
Then she returned, and shut herself up in her bedroom, and worked for an hour or two at a paper which she was writing for the 'Breakfast Table.' Nobody should ever accuse her justly of idleness.

And afterwards, as she walked by herself round and round the garden, she revolved in her mind the scheme of a new book.

Whatever might happen she would persevere.