By all means let him go with them to the Rockies.

They could not unfortunately offer him sleeping room in the car.

But by day Lady Merton hoped he would be their guest, and share all their facilities and splendours.

"I shall be so glad of a companion for Philip, who is rapidly getting strong enough to give me a great deal of trouble." That was how she put it--how she must put it, of course.

He perfectly understood her.
And now here he was, sitting in the C.P.R.Hotel at Winnipeg, at a time of year when he was generally in Paris or Rome, investigating the latest Greek acquisitions of the Louvre, or the last excavation in the Forum; picnicking in the Campagna; making expeditions to Assisi or Subiaco; and in the evenings frequenting the drawing-rooms of ministers and ambassadors.
He looked up presently from the _Times_, and at the street outside; the new and raw street, with its large commercial buildings of the American type, its tramcars and crowded sidewalks.