Good-bye, glad you happened to catch me, which you would not have done half an hour later, as I am going out of town.

At ten o'clock next Monday, please." After this, not knowing what to do, Godfrey returned to the Great Eastern Hotel and wrote a letter to his father, in which, baldly enough, he explained what had happened.
Having posted it in the box in the hall, he bethought him that he must find some place to live in, as the hotel was too expensive for a permanence, and was making inquiries of the porter as to how he should set about the matter when a telegram was handed to him.

It ran: "All up as I expected.

Meet me Liverpool Street 4.30 .-- Nurse." So Godfrey postponed his search for lodgings, and at the appointed hour kept the assignation on the platform.

The train arrived, and out of it, looking much more like her old self than she had on the previous day, emerged Mrs.Parsons with the most extraordinary collection of bundles, he counted nine of them, to say nothing of a jackdaw in a cage.