252/306 "I don't believe I could get off to the Hague this afternoon." "Could you to Liverpool ?" he returned. "What do you mean ?" "Merely that the Cupania is sailing on the twentieth, and I've telegraphed to know if we can get a room. I'm afraid it won't be a good one, but she's the first boat out, and--" "No, indeed, we won't go to Liverpool, and we will never go home till you've had your after-cure in Holland." She was very firm in this, but she added, "We will stay another night, here, and go to the Hague tomorrow. Sit down, and let us talk it over. Where were we ?" She lay down on the sofa, and he put a shawl over her. |