“It will be rather a cold walk for you; you are too late for the train, and the last 'bus, I am afraid, has gone.”
“I shall have a hansom. The only thing that worries me is not being able to say good-bye to the missus.”
“She's fast asleep. She won't mind—I'll make that all right.”
“Then, at twelve o'clock at London Bridge!”
VIII
Sally rushed down to meet him, and she took him off for a walk in the garden.
“What a time it is since we have seen you. What have you been doing—amusing yourself a great deal, I suppose?”
“I have been the whole time in Paris. I have been studying very hard. I only returned home about two months ago.”