Mrs.Rook was still too inveterately amiable to take offense.

She opened her traveling-bag briskly, and placed a railway guide in Alban's hands.
"I've heard that the women do the men's work in foreign parts," she said.

"But this is England; and I am an Englishwoman.

Find out when the train goes, my dear sir, for yourself." Alban at once consulted the guide.

If there proved to be no immediate need of starting for the station, he was determined that Emily should not be condemned to pass the interval in the housekeeper's company.