If Ovid wanted information on the subject of Canada, Ovid must go to him, and get it.

That was all.
"Have you ever been to Doctor Benjulia's house ?" Carmina asked.
"Never." "Then all you have told me about him is mere report?
Now you will find out the truth! Of course you will go ?" Ovid felt no desire to make a voyage of exploration to Benjulia's house--and said so plainly.

Carmina used all her powers of persuasion to induce him to change his mind.

Mrs.Gallilee (superior to the influence of girlish curiosity) felt the importance of obtaining introductions to Canadian society, and agreed with her niece.

"I shall order the carriage," she said, assuming a playfully despotic tone; "and, if you don't go to the doctor--Carmina and I will pay him a visit in your place." Threatened, if he remained obstinate, with such a result as this, Ovid had no alternative but to submit.
The one order that could be given to the coachman was to drive to the village of Hendon, on the north-western side of London, and to trust to inquiries for the rest of the way.