Of course, it was lonely, but there was always Cinders to fall back upon for comfort.

She was thankful that she had insisted upon bringing him, though Mademoiselle had protested most emphatically against this addition to the party.

How she was to get him back again she had not begun to consider.

Doubtless, however, Jack would manage it somehow.

Jack was the aforementioned cousin in the Guards, a young man of much kindness and resource, upon whom Chris was wont to rely as a sort of superior elder brother.