Mrs.Ambrose had taxed her husband with concealing something from her ever since the previous day, but the good man was obstinate and merely said that he felt unaccountably nervous and irritable, and begged her to excuse his mood.

Mrs.Ambrose postponed her cross-examination until a more favourable opportunity should present itself.
John got into the gig and drove away.

He was to return with the squire to dinner in the evening, and he fully expected that Mrs.Goddard and Nellie would be of the party--it seemed hardly likely that they should be omitted.

Indeed, soon after John had left a note arrived at the vicarage explaining that Mrs.Goddard was much better and would certainly come, according to Mrs.Ambrose's very kind invitation.
It is unnecessary to dwell upon the meeting which took place between Mr.
Juxon and John Short.

The squire was hospitable in the extreme and expressed his great satisfaction at having John under his own roof at last.