"Can they go no faster?"
"They could go a little faster if they were urged; but that would spoil the comfort of the whole thing. The entire genius of a ride in an ox cart is, that everybody should take his ease."
"Oxen included?" said Mr. Lenox.
"Why not?"
"Why not, indeed!" said the gentleman, smiling. "Only, ordinary people cannot get rid easily of the notion that the object of going is to get somewhere."
"That's not the object in this case," Lois answered merrily. "The one sole object is fun."
Mrs. Lenox said nothing more, but her face spoke as plainly as possible, And you call this fun!
"I am enjoying myself very much," said Mrs. Barclay. "I think it is delightful."
Something in her manner of speech made Mr. Lenox look at her. She was sitting next him on the cart bottom.
"Perhaps this is a new experience also to you?" he said.