CHAPTER XV.
WE posted five-and-thirty miles, then stopped for a couple of hours to rest, and wait for a night coach running northward.
On getting into this vehicle we were fortunate enough to find the fourth inside place not occupied.

Mrs.Baggs showed her sense of the freedom from restraint thus obtained by tying a huge red comforter round her head like a turban, and immediately falling fast asleep.

This gave Alicia and me full liberty to talk as we pleased.

Our conversation was for the most part of that particular kind which is not of the smallest importance to any third person in the whole world.

One portion of it, however, was an exception to this general rule.