text:  Much taken no doubt by John's polite address which by his own recapitulation of it must have been highly insinuating and delighted to see any one who could talk to her about her son and to learn that she herself was talked about among his grand friends in Oxford the worthy Mrs Hodgett begged John Brown to walk in; and finding that there was nothing high about him and that he listened with the greatest interest to all her family details and reminiscences she took courage to ask him to eat a bit of dinner with her and her daughter at two o'clock after which she promised him the escort of her son-in-law Mr Mogg the principal (that was what they called them up at Nottingham just as they did in Oxford she observed) of the great stocking-house over the way