She was to sit in the rumble of the carriage behind.

Every particular of each new arrangement afforded me great amusement; and I could hardly control my impatience for the eventful day to arrive.
It came at last.

There was very early breakfast for us all in the dining-room.

No appetite, however, had I; and very cruel I thought Aunt Maria for insisting that I should swallow a certain amount of food, as a condition of being allowed to go at all.

My enforced breakfast over, I went to look for Rubens.