"Good-morning, Miss Effie. This is an unexpected pleasure."
"You see, Doctor" (she blushed and stammered a little as she spoke), "you know I like to take a walk in the morning, and happened to come down to the station."
"Of course, quite accidental," said the Doctor, with a merry twinkle in his eyes.
"Yes, that is, I knew Frank—I mean Mr. Bassett—that is, I knew you were all three going away, and I thought I might come down and see you start."
"Quite proper, Miss Effie," was the reply; "so good-bye: I must look after the tickets and the baggage."
"Good-bye, Doctor Bronson; good-bye, Mr. Fred. Bon voyage!"
Frank lingered behind, and the rest of the dialogue has not been recorded.
"She's a nice girl," said Fred to the Doctor as they made their way to the ticket-office. "And she's very fond of Mary Bassett, Frank's sister. Spiteful people say, though, that she's oftener in Frank's company than in Mary's; and I know Frank is ready to punch the head of any other boy that dares to look at her."