For all these, they might still have been sitting in their steamer chairs on the promenade of the Norumbia at a period which seemed now of geological remoteness.

The girl accounted for not being in Dresden by her father's having decided not to go through Berlin but to come by way of Leipsic, which he thought they had better see; they had come without stopping in Hamburg.

They had not enjoyed Leipsic much; it had rained the whole day before, and they had not gone out.

She asked when Mrs.
March was going on to Carlsbad, and Mrs.March answered, the next morning; her husband wished to begin his cure at once.
Then Miss Triscoe pensively wondered if Carlsbad would do her father any good; and Mrs.March discreetly inquired General Triscoe's symptoms.
"Oh, he hasn't any.

But I know he can't be well--with his gloomy opinions." "They may come from his liver," said Mrs.March.