However, Mary does not have any idea what she is getting herself into until she realizes that the local town people do not want anything to do with the Jamaica Inn and her coachman leaves her a mile or two away from the inn along with her luggage.

'You'll see!To-morrow...Oh, but we are going out to-morrow.'CHAPTER VIIINEXT DAY, BEFORE THE LADIES WERE UP, the vehicles – a cart and a small trap – stood at the porch waiting for the sportsmen; and Laska, having long ago made out that they were going shooting, after yelping and jumping about to her heart's content, was sitting in the cart beside the coachman, regarding the doorway whence the sportsmen had not yet emerged, with excitement and with disapproval of the delay.

So the coachman rode back on the side-horse and Levin drove the other two himself.

'Why did you leave the road?' he asked drily, and calling the coachman, set to work to get the horses out.

Another crack of the whip, and on they speed, at a smart gallop, the horses tossing their heads and rattling the harness, as if in exhilaration at the rapidity of the motion; while the coachman, holding whip and reins in one hand, takes off his hat with the other, and resting it on his knees, pulls out his handkerchief, and wipes his forehead, partly because he has a habit of doing it, and partly because it's as well to show the passengers how cool he is, and what an easy thing it is to drive four-in-hand, when you have had as much practice as he has.

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