“By Jove! we've got 'em!” ejaculated Gunther.
“Here they are,” Selden said, with radiant face, seizing hold of George's hands, which he shook emphatically.
“Look here! let me have one of his hands, won't you?” said Gunther; “what an all-absorbing fellow you continue to be, I am sure.”
While George gave a hand to each, he told the porter he wanted a compartment, if such was to be had.
“There are none disengaged, sir, except some of those little ones at the end of the car, which no one wants; but you can have a section if you like,” the porter replied.
“I have that already; but the ladies with me want a good, large compartment.”
“We have one which we will be most happy to place at your service,” Gunther said.
“And rob you of it. That wouldn't be fair.”
“Yes it would, as we don't care for it. And it is very nice and private, and the ladies should have it,” Selden said, warmly.
As the section which George's tickets assigned to him was the very next to the apartment in question, it was very clear to Mr. Selden that no arrangement could have been more fortunate, and he said so.