'They have come over here, I suppose, with reference to the sale I made to them lately of my interests at Polyeuka.' 'That's about it,' said Adamson.
'We won't talk business just at this moment, because we have to eat our breakfast and drink our boy's health.

But when that is done, I'll hear what you have to say;--or come into Cambridge to-morrow just as you please.

You'll walk up to the house now, and I'll introduce you to my wife ?' 'We don't mind if we do eat a bit,--do we, Jack ?' said Crinkett.

Jack bobbed his head, and so they walked back to Folking, the three of them together, while the two Mr.Boltons and Uncle Babington followed behind.
The ladies and the baby had been taken in a carriage.
The distance from the church to the house at Folking was less than half a mile, but Caldigate thought that he would never reach his hall door.
How was he to talk to the men,--with what words and after what fashion?
And what should he say about them to his wife when he reached home?
She had seen him speak to them, had known that he had been obliged to stay behind with them when it would have been so natural that he should have been at her side as she got into the carriage.

Of that he was aware, but he could not know how far their presence would have frightened her.
'Yes,' he said, in answer to some question from Crinkett; 'the property round here is not exactly mine, but my father's.' 'They tell me as it's yours now ?' said Crinkett.
'You haven't to learn to-day that in regard to other people's concerns men talk more than they know.