It was all but impossible to keep the secret of her joy, yet she had resolved to do so, and her purpose held firm.
'I am very glad indeed that you are so happy there,' sail her father, looking at her with that quiet absorption in another's mood of which he was so capable.

'But it will be London through the winter.

You haven't told me much about London; but then you were there so short a time.' 'But I saw much.

Mrs.Rossall could not have been kinder; for the first few days it was almost as if I had been a visitor; I was taken everywhere.' 'I should like to see London before I die,' mused her father.

'Somehow I have never managed to get so far.' 'Oh, we will see it together some day.' 'There's one thing,' said Mr.Hood, reflectively, 'that I wish especially to see, and that is Holborn Viaduct.