Chapter 73Mr. Lodge was soon ready for his tea; and when he had drunk his tea, he was ready to go home; and it was all his three companions could do to suppress his late hour notification before the other gentlemen appeared. Mr. Winstone was talkative and sociable and not a friend of early breakups of any kind; but eventually the society in the salon received an increase. Mr. Alton, in a very good mood, was one of the first to come in. Mrs. Winstone and Emma sat together on a sofa. He immediately joined them and sat down between them without being asked.
Emma, too, was in a good mood, ready to forget his late inconvenience and be as happy with him as before, from the amusement that the expectation of Mr. Frank Curcelle gave her, and since he made Harriet his very first subject, she was wi
