It had been arranged that they should go to Saint Peter's.

Roderick was in high good-humor, and, in the carriage, was watching his mother with a fine mixture of filial and professional tenderness.

Mrs.Hudson looked up mistrustfully at the tall, shabby houses, and grasped the side of the barouche in her hand, as if she were in a sail-boat, in dangerous waters.

Rowland sat opposite to Miss Garland.

She was totally oblivious of her companions; from the moment the carriage left the hotel, she sat gazing, wide-eyed and absorbed, at the objects about them.