We've nothing to pack, and that's a comfort.

Nine o'clock, did you say?
You may go on to the depot, if you like, and we'll eat our breakfasts, take a carriage, and be there in time." They were there in time, and we all went north together.
We had a jolly trip.

We saw Charleston, and Richmond, and Washington, and Baltimore, and Philadelphia; and at last we saw Jersey City, and our folks waiting for us in the great depot of the Pennsylvania railroad.
When I saw my father and mother and my sister Helen standing there on the stone foot-walk, as the cars rolled in, I was amazed.

I hadn't expected them.

It was all right enough for Rectus to expect his father and mother, for they lived in New York, but I had supposed that I should meet my folks at the station in Willisville.