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She could not call this being forestalled ; it could not give the young ladies any idea of a proper country excursion , with four or five carriages , or a boat with an awning . As soon as Mr Rowland came home in the evening , she consulted him about the day , the place , the mode , and the numbers to be invited . Mr Rowland was so well pleased to find his lady in the mood to be civil to her neighbours , that he started no difficulties , and exerted himself to overcome such as could not be overlooked . All the planning prospered so well , that notes to the Grey family and to the Miss Ibbotsons lay on Mr Grey 's breakfast-table the next morning , inviting the whole party to dine with Mrs Rowland in Dingleford woods , that day week -- the carriages to be at the door at ten o'clock . The whole village rang with the preparations for this excursion ; and the village was destined to ring with other tidings before it took place . Mrs Rowland often said that she had the worst luck in the world ; and it seemed as if all small events fell out so as to plague her . She had an unusual fertility in such sensible suppositions and reasonable complaints ; and her whole diversity of expressions of this kind was called into play about this expedition to Dingleford woods .