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'If he had ever in his life said a word that he
should not have said, a word that would have been an insult, of course
it would have been different. But the notion of it is preposterous. Why
should I not have seen him?'
'I think he was wrong to come,' said Hugh.
'Of course he was wrong, wickedly wrong,' said Priscilla.
Stanbury, finding that the subject was openly discussed between them,
declared plainly the mission that had brought him to Nuncombe.
'Trevelyan heard that he was coming, and asked me to let him know the
truth,'
'Now you can tell him the truth,' said Mrs Trevelyan, with something of
indignation in her tone, as though she thought that Stanbury had taken
upon himself a task of which he ought to be ashamed.
'But Colonel Osborne came specially to pay a visit to Cockchaffington,'
said Nora, 'and not to see us. Louis ought to know that.'
'Nora, how can you demean yourself to care about such trash?' said Mrs
Trevelyan. 'Who cares why he came here? His visit to me was a thing of
course.


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