"Nobody could help being nice to you, lady." She thanked him again and went to the promenade.

It seemed to her that they had almost arrived.

Along shore stretched a continuous line of houses--pretty houses with gardens.

There were electric cars.

Nearer the river lay several parallel lines of railway track along which train after train was speeding, some of them short trains of ordinary day coaches, others long trains made up in part of coaches grander and more beautiful than any she had ever seen.