about midday
that I have no two beds to offer you -RRB- , you sall take one in ze hotel , and at morning we sall all be ` appy together . '' Mr Armstrong grimly accepted this proposal , and took a room for the night at Gustav 's hotel . The next morning , scarcely waiting to take breakfast or bid another adieu to his grateful friend , he hurried the genial Tom , who had enjoyed himself extremely , to the station , and carried him down by express train to Maxfield . When Mr Armstrong with his jovial charge arrived about midday at Maxfield , he was struck with the transformation scene which had taken place since he quitted it gloomily a day or two before . The house was the same , the furniture was untouched , the ordinary domestic routine appeared to be unaltered , but a sense of something new pervaded the place which he could interpret only by the one word -- Oliphant . The captain had made a touching entry -- full of sympathy , full of affection , full of a desire to spare his dear cousin all business worry , full of the responsibility that was on him to take charge of the dear fatherless boy , full of that calm sense of duty which enables a man to assert himself on all occasions for the good of those committed to his care . As for his charming daughters , they had floated majestically into their quarters -- Miss Rosalind a trifle defiantly , making no secret of her dislike of the whole business ; Miss Jill merrily , delighted with the novelty and beauty of this new home , so much more to her mind than the barrack home in India .