Say that family reasons, which you hope soon to have the pleasure of confiding to her, oblige you to appeal once more to her indulgence--and come to-morrow, and help us to receive Mrs.Glenarm." Even Geoffrey was startled, when he found himself met by a sudden necessity for acting on his own decision.

Anne knew where his brother lived.

Suppose Anne (not knowing where else to find him) appeared at his brother's house, and claimed him in the presence of Mrs.Glenarm?
He gave orders to have the messenger kept waiting, and said he would send back a written reply.
"From Craig Fernie ?" asked Arnold, pointing to the letter in his friend's hand.
Geoffrey looked up with a frown.

He had just opened his lips to answer that ill-timed reference to Anne, in no very friendly terms, when a voice, calling to Arnold from the lawn outside, announced the appearance of a third person in the library, and warned the two gentlemen that their private interview was at an end..