Why should they not all go abroad together and escape the east winds of spring?
The General leaped at it.
Once get Nelly abroad and she would know nothing of what was happening on the Indian frontier.

He, and Nelly and the Dowager.

He had not imagined the Dowager in such a party--yet, he shrank from the prolonged _tete-a-tete_ with Nell which the trip would have been without the Dowager's presence.

Robin would join them at Easter.

They could all travel home together.
There was a time of bustle when Nelly and the Dowager were getting their travelling outfits.