“And now we will see ours,” said Dick.
And the steward led the party far away up to the bows of the steamer, where he showed them two large, three-cornered state-rooms, directly opposite each other.
Though their position was execrable, they were even much larger and much better furnished than was Drusilla’s.
She noticed their ample size and many conveniences, and exclaimed;
“I am so glad that you have so much space and so many little drawers and cupboards to put away your things, and that you are so near each other, too.”
And in her heart she wished that she could be near them also; for she could not know that they had the worst situation while she had the best, or that they would be harrassed by every motion of the ship, while she would scarcely feel it at all.
Dick and Anna smiled and enjoyed her “bliss of ignorance.”
Having thus inspected their future quarters, they left the steamer and returned to the hotel.
Drusilla had been feeling a little secret anxiety on the subject of her boy.
But Master Lenny had neither been stolen, run over, choked, bumped, or injured in any other of the ways she had feared for him. He was quite safe, and full of a subject which he called “moodick” and “yed toat;” and which Drusa interpreted to mean a brass band attached to a marine corps that had been playing in the park to Lenny’s great delight.