He may also have been gratified to hear from Munich that Roxbury was perfectly lovely.

She said, in the course of her longest despatch, that she was so glad that the baby was getting to like her father more and more as the day wore on.
At one station Brock narrowly escaped missing the train.

He swung himself aboard as the cars were rolling out of the sheds.

As he sank, hot and exhausted, into the seat opposite his wife and her sister, the former looked up from her book, yawning ever so faintly, and asked: "Are you enjoying your honeymoon, Roxbury ?" "Immensely!" he exclaimed, but not until he had searched for and caught Connie's truant gaze.

"Aren't we ?" he asked of Miss Fowler, his eyes dancing.