"Naughty Evy, you have cut off the horse's head!" "Mr.Maltravers?
No, I think not; no, he was not there.

Lord Raby asked him pointedly to come, and was, I know, much disappointed that he did not.

But _a propos_ of Mr.Maltravers: I met him not a quarter of an hour ago, this morning, as I was coming to you.

You know we have leave to come through his park, and as I was in the park at the time, I stopped the carriage to speak to him.

I told him that I was coming here, and that you had had the scarlet fever in the house, which was the reason you had not gone to the races; and he turned quite pale, and seemed so alarmed.