Four p.m.
We are in a great state of excitement -- I as much as she -- I can not quite tell why . He is really coming in ten days , he says . May 9 . Four p.m. -- I am so agitated I can scarcely write , and yet am particularly impelled to do so before leaving my room . It is the unexpected shape of an expected event which has caused my absurd excitement , which proves me almost as much a school-girl as Caroline . M. de la Feste was not , as we understood , to have come till to-morrow ; but he is here -- just arrived . All household directions have devolved upon me , for my father , not thinking M. de la Feste would appear before us for another four-and-twenty hours , left home before post time to attend a distant consecration ; and hence Caroline and I were in no small excitement when Charles 's letter was opened , and we read that he had been unexpectedly favoured in the dispatch of his studio work , and would follow his letter in a few hours .