Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope — Read

Lord Chiltern arrived, and Phineas was a little nervous as to their meeting. He came back from shooting on the day in question, and was told by the servant that Lord Chiltern was in the house. Phineas went into the billiard-room in his knickerbockers, thinking probably that he might be there, and then into the drawing-room, and at last into the library -- but Lord Chiltern was not to be found. At last he came across Violet.

"Have you seen him? " he asked.