"Is that all?" asked Lady Feodora.
"That's all this time; but sometimes we have to take it for a couple of hours," laughed Shuffles.
"I'm sure I wish he had said more. What do you do now?"
"We go to Ulm at two this afternoon. After that we go to Stuttgart, Carlsruhe, Baden, and then down the Rhine."
"We must go with them, pa," added she, turning to the earl.
"We shall be ready to go to Ulm this afternoon in the same train," replied her father.
"I am delighted!" exclaimed Feodora. "I hope we shall go with you down the Rhine."
Sir William, for some reason or other, did not hope so. In fact, he was rather dumpy and morose.
"Possibly you will," suggested Shuffles.
"What a happy life you must lead, captain!"