'No, my father and mother,' said Jimmy. 'They're going to meet me.'
'Oh, I see,' answered the butler, and he ought to have understood, for Jimmy had told him a great many times since they left Aunt Selina's house.
'You're just going to start,' Jones added.
'Good-bye,' cried Jimmy, and he put his hand out of the window and the butler shook it.
'Good-bye, sir,' he answered, and Jimmy felt quite sorry when Jones let go his hand.
But the train was beginning to move; the butler stepped back and took out his pocket-handkerchief and waved it, but it was to dry his eyes that Jimmy took out his; for when the train glided away and he could not see Jones any more Jimmy felt very much alone, especially as the old gentleman opposite kept lowering his paper and looking down at his trousers and then frowning at him.
CHAPTER VI
THE JOURNEY
For the first quarter of an hour after the train started Jimmy was contented to gaze out of the window, but presently, growing tired of doing that, he turned to look at the two ladies at the farther end of the compartment.