Roscoe already there.

"You are in time, Hector," said Mr. Roscoe. "I don't know how early
they will get up at school, but I hope it won't be earlier than
this."

"I have no objection to early rising," said Hector.

"I have," said Allan Roscoe, gaping.

"I am sorry to have inconvenienced you,"
said Hector, politely. "I could have gone to school alone."

"No doubt; but I wished an interview with Mr. Socrates Smith myself.
I look upon myself in the light of your guardian, though you are not
my nephew, as was originally supposed."

"I'd give a good deal to know whether this is true," thought Hector,
fixing his eyes attentively upon his uncle's face.

I have written "uncle" inadvertently, that being the character in
which Mr. Roscoe appeared to the world.

"By the way, Hector," said Allan Roscoe, "there is one matter which
we have not yet settled."

"What is that, sir?"

"About your name."