Tom felt much embarrassed how to act, and, after some hesitation, told his Inviter of his last visit to the mansion in question, thinking that a knowledge of the circumstances might change his mind.
"Tom Brown at Oxford"
Thomas Hughes
Striking across a path, which led through a corner of the plantation to a space of ground containing a small garden, quaintly trimmed in the Dutch taste, and a brick house of moderate dimensions, half overgrown with ivy and jessamine, Clarence and his Inviter paused at the door of the said mansion, and the latter welcomed his guest to his abode.
"The Disowned, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
They continued with their kind Inviter a few days longer, and then went to find the hermit.
"Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia"
Samuel Johnson