"It made me want to know you. All the more that since then—your aunt being so much with Mr. Touchett—I＇ve been quite alone and have got rather tired of my own society. I＇ve not chosen a good moment for my visit."
A servant had come in with lamps and was presently followed by another bearing the tea-tray. On the appearance of this repast Mrs. Touchett had apparently been notified, for she now arrived and addressed herself to the tea-pot. Her greeting to her niece did not differ materially from her manner of raising the lid of this receptacle in order to glance at the contents: in neither act was it becoming to make a show of avidity.Questioned about her husband she was unable to say he was better; but the local doctor was with him,and much light was expected from this gentleman＇s consultation with Sir Matthew Hope.