Torquil - Thomas, he has to remember that, is ready to face the possibility of robbers or man eating beasts or, as the most extreme proof of his misery in the face of rain and storm, one of his siblings some how managing to have found him as long as there's some sort of shelter. He is in no fit state to meet anyone of quality, but he finds it hard to believe he would encounter any of such type here, and hours of rain are (almost) enough to overcome his vanity.

He still pauses in the doorway when he sees the shelter already has an occupant.