"Sister March and her son," observed Garnet to Mrs. Proudfit and the train moved on.
XXV.
BY RAIL
Everybody felt playful and nearly everybody coquettish. When Sister Proudfit, in response to some sly gallantry of Garnet's used upon him a pair of black eyes, he gave her the whole wealth of his own. He must have overdone the matter, for the next moment he found Fannie's eyes levelled directly on him. She withdrew them with a casual remark to Barbara, yet not till they had said to him, in solemn silence:
"You villain, that time I saw you!"
Mrs. March had pushed cheerily into the rear Suez coach. Away from home and its satieties no one could be more easily or thoroughly pleased. Her son said the forward coach was better, but in there she had sighted Fannie and Barbara, and so——
"There's more room in here," she insisted with sweet buoyancy.
Hamlet Graves rose. "Here, Cousin Daphne!" His brother Lazarus stood up with him.
"Here, John, your maw'll feel better if you're a-sett'n' by her."