He would have preferred to see a good English dogcart, high in the seat and wheels, at the door of the Hall, instead of that outlandish vehicle; but Joseph Ruggles, the groom, explained to him that it was easier to clean than a dogcart, and that when it rained he sat inside with the squire.
On a certain evening in February, towards the end of the month, Mr.and Mrs.Ambrose and Mr.Juxon came to have tea with Mrs.Goddard.

Mr.Juxon had at first not been regularly invited to these entertainments.

They were perhaps not thought worthy of his grandeur; at all events both the vicar's wife and Mrs.Goddard had asked him very rarely.

But as time went on and Mr.Juxon's character developed under the eyes of the little Billingsfield society, it had become apparent to every one that he was a very simple man, making no pretensions whatever to any superiority on account of his station.

They grew more and more fond of him, and ended by asking him to their small sociable evenings.