"It's going to be a great country.

Is this your first visit ?" But the conversation was interrupted by a reproachful appeal from Yerkes.
"Breakfast, my lady, has been hotted twice." The Canadian looked at Elizabeth curiously, lifted his hat, and went away.
"Well, if this doesn't take the cake!" said Philip Gaddesden, throwing himself disconsolately into an armchair.

"I bet you, Elizabeth, we shall be here forty-eight hours.

And this damp goes through one." The young man shivered, as he looked petulantly out through the open doorway of the car to the wet woods beyond.

Elizabeth surveyed him with some anxiety.