But where are you going, Sir?
Certainly not toward your horse.

You must stay and dine with us." Lawrence hesitated.

He had no claims on the hospitality of these people, but he wished very much to have an opportunity to speak to Mrs Null.
"Thank you," he said, "but I am staying down here at the village, and it is but a short ride." "Staying at Hewlett's ?" exclaimed Mrs Keswick.

"At which hotel, may I ask ?" Lawrence laughed.

"I am stopping with the storekeeper," he said.
"That settles it!" said the old lady, giving her umbrella a jab into the ground.