There was the Mersey and Liverpool, looking, as they came in, much as if the accumulated dirt of the three kingdoms had been bestowed there, but brightening up into a different aspect when they had fairly landed and left the docks behind them.

For it was a lovely March day--only the second or third of the month it is true,--and winter, which they had left in full possession in Canada, seemed to be over here, and the warm sunny air so invigorated Mr.Leigh that he would not hear Maurice's proposal to rest until next day, but insisted on setting out at once for Norfolk.
As they drove to the railway they passed the jeweller's shop where Maurice had bought Lucia's ring.

Alas! it still lay in his pocket, where he had carried it ever since that day--when would it find its destination?
He was not going to be disheartened now, however.

He was glad of the little disturbance to his thoughts of having to take tickets and see his father comfortably placed, and at the very last moment he was just able to seize upon a _Times_, and set himself to reading it as if he had never been out of England..