Was it to maintain his place with them, and to keep Fenwick under observation?
Fenwick triumphantly believed that Lord Findon greatly preferred his work--and even, by now, his conversation--to Cuningham's.

But he was still envious of Cuningham's smooth tact, and agreeable, serviceable ways.
As to Welby and his place in the Findon circle, that was another matter altogether.

He came and went as he pleased, on brotherly terms with the son and the younger daughters, clearly an object of great affection to Lord Findon, and often made use of by her ladyship.
What was the degree of friendship between him and Madame de Pastourelles ?--that had been already the subject of many meditations on Fenwick's part.
The cart deposited the school-boy in Brathay and started again for Langdale.
'Yo couldna get at Langdale for t' snaw lasst week,' said the young farmer, as they turned a corner into the Skelwith Valley.

'T' roads were fair choked wi't.' 'It's been an early winter,' said Fenwick.
'Aye, and t' Langdales get t' brunt o't.

It's wild livin there, soomtimes, i' winter.' They began to climb the first steep hill of the old road to Langdale.
The snow lay piled on either side of the road, the rain beat down, and the trees clashed and moaned overhead.