Meanings of expecting the boy in English

Whatever Cleve had been expecting the boy to come out with, that wasn't it.

Both men had started toward the landing place, expecting the boy to follow, but they stopped suddenly and faced about on hearing this new proposition.

"We are expecting the boy," Fremont said.

"Take it easy," one of the men said, glancing at the chains warily as if expecting the boy might free himself from his shackles.