Said they must have passages--produced a letter from Lord Glenaway, asking me as a personal favour--overruled any objections Jackson made (I don't believe they came to much), and so there's nothing for it but to submit, I suppose." But it was evident that for some reason or other Willoughby was quite pleased to submit, although he made a show of growling.
The truth was that Mr.and Mrs.Dalloway had found themselves stranded in Lisbon.

They had been travelling on the Continent for some weeks, chiefly with a view to broadening Mr.Dalloway's mind.

Unable for a season, by one of the accidents of political life, to serve his country in Parliament, Mr.Dalloway was doing the best he could to serve it out of Parliament.

For that purpose the Latin countries did very well, although the East, of course, would have done better.
"Expect to hear of me next in Petersburg or Teheran," he had said, turning to wave farewell from the steps of the Travellers'.

But a disease had broken out in the East, there was cholera in Russia, and he was heard of, not so romantically, in Lisbon.