All that night I kept thinking it was too good to be true; it must be a dream; but the next morning, when we got to the railroad station, there was Fani, and he had been waiting three hours, ever since six o'clock.

Mrs.Stanhope laughed a little at his impatience--it was the first time she had laughed at all.
All day long we travelled in the railway carriage, and Fani was as happy as he could be.

When we stopped at a station, and Aunt Clarissa was going to get out and fetch us something to eat, Mrs.
Stanhope stopped her and said: "No, no; we have an escort now, he must wait upon us." Then she explained to Fani what he was to do, and you ought to have seen how he ran about and did it all so handily, and he kept looking at Mrs.Stanhope to see if she was pleased; and she was pleased, that was plain enough.

In the evening we stopped at Mainz on the Rhine, and Mrs.Stanhope said we should see the river in the morning.

And the next day, what do you think?
we went on a splendid steamboat; no one can possibly understand it without seeing it.