'Indeed! You have been at the opera, of course?'
'No.'
'Or the picture galleries?'
'No.'
'What! Have you not seen the Royal Museum, the antiquities at the Steyne, and the Musée Plantin-Moretus?'
'I have seen none of those things.'
'Nor the splendid churches, and all the rest of it?'
'I have been nowhere,' replied Alison, thinking sadly of her father's sick-bed.
'How this old snake has kept this lovely girl all to himself!' was the thought of Sir Jasper, in whose heart envy now mingled with exultation.
'How I should like to show you all these places, and Brussels too!' said he at length.