Austen Said:

their sudden return home, which, as their own carriage had not fetched them, she should have known nothing about, if she had not happened to see Mr. Jones's shop-boy in the street, who had told her that

Mr. Denny had brought him from London,

he was to have a lieutenant's commission in the ——shire.

She had been watching him the last hour,

as he walked up and down the street,

to make her husband call on Mr. Wickham, and give him an invitation also, if the family from Longbourn would come in the evening.

they would have a nice comfortable noisy game of lottery tickets, and a little bit of hot supper afterwards.

Mr. Wickham had accepted their uncle's invitation, and was then in the house.

with the design of cheering and heartening them up