I think his morning bath doesn't agree with him." Arthur was anxious not to imply that he came with any special purpose.
He had no sooner found himself in Mr.Irwine's presence than the confidence which he had thought quite easy before, suddenly appeared the most difficult thing in the world to him, and at the very moment of shaking hands he saw his purpose in quite a new light.

How could he make Irwine understand his position unless he told him those little scenes in the wood; and how could he tell them without looking like a fool?
And then his weakness in coming back from Gawaine's, and doing the very opposite of what he intended! Irwine would think him a shilly-shally fellow ever after.

However, it must come out in an unpremeditated way; the conversation might lead up to it.
"I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day," said Mr.Irwine.

"No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.

I always have a favourite book by me at breakfast, and I enjoy the bits I pick up then so much, that regularly every morning it seems to me as if I should certainly become studious again.