so far as it was possible to comprehend him without overstepping those delicate and gradual approaches which mr. lorry felt to be the only safe advance, he at first supposed that his daughter's marriage had taken place yesterday. an incidental allusion, purposely thrown out, to the day of the week, and the day of the month, set him thinking and counting, and evidently made him uneasy. in all other respects, however, he was so composedly himself, that mr. lorry determined to have the aid he sought. and that aid was his own.