"Do let me take you.

I haven't had a passenger yet." She stepped in at once.
"As a matter of fact," she told him, "I was looking for a taxicab.

I have had a telegram from Ralph.

He wants us to go down to Portsmouth by the first train we can catch this morning.

He says that if we can get down there in time to have lunch at two o'clock, he can show us over the _Scorpion._ After to-day she will be closed to visitors, even his own relations.