Catherick at a personal interview. I don’t understand her wishing to conceal her visit to this place from Sir Percival’s knowledge, and I don’t feel half so sure, as the housekeeper seems to do, that her daughter Anne is not in the neighbourhood after all. What would Walter Hartright have said in this emergency? Poor, dear Hartright! I am beginning to feel the want of his honest advice and his willing help already.

Surely I heard something. Was it a bustle of footsteps below stairs? Yes! I hear the horses’ feet⁠—I hear the rolling wheels⁠—

12th .⁠—A day of investigations and discoveries⁠—a more interesting day, for many reasons, than I had ventured to anticipate.

I began my sightseeing, of course, with the house.