How to secure the lady from surprisal

Absolute: Ay, Bob, Miss Melville's Mr Faulkland. Acres: Odso! She and your father can be but just arrived before me.

With an almost imperceptible touch, the narrator connects up this oneirism of names with the premonitory signs of the vocation that Remebrance is said to recount.

[…] let him not touche the quarters nor the heeles at al, vnlesse it be to make the seat of the shoe playne, & let that be done so superficially or ouerly as maye be, so shall the houes remayne alwayes strong.