He already saw himself discussing with this lady the attractions of Woollett as a residence for Chad's companion.

Was that youth going now to trust her with the affair--so that it would be after all with one of his "lady-friends" that his mother's missionary should be condemned to deal?
It was quite as if for an instant the two men looked at each other on this question.

But there was no mistaking at last Chad's pride in the display of such a connexion.

This was what had made him so carry himself while, three minutes before, he was bringing it into view; what had caused his friend, first catching sight of him, to be so struck with his air.

It was, in a word, just when he thus finally felt Chad putting things straight off on him that he envied him, as he had mentioned to little Bilham, most.