"What happened--an accident to the train ?" He laughed again.

"They missed the train--all the trains--they had to drive back." "Well---- ?" She hesitated, feeling at once how little even this necessity accounted for the fatal lapse of hours.
"Well, they couldn't get a carriage at once--at that time of night, you know--" the explanatory note made it almost seem as though he were putting the case for his wife--"and when they finally did, it was only a one-horse cab, and the horse was lame!" "How tiresome! I see," she affirmed, with the more earnestness because she was so nervously conscious that she did not; and after a pause she added: "I'm so sorry--but ought we to have waited ?" "Waited for the one-horse cab?
It would scarcely have carried the four of us, do you think ?" She took this in what seemed the only possible way, with a laugh intended to sink the question itself in his humorous treatment of it.

"Well, it would have been difficult; we should have had to walk by turns.

But it would have been jolly to see the sunrise." "Yes: the sunrise WAS jolly," he agreed.
"Was it?
You saw it, then ?" "I saw it, yes; from the deck.

I waited up for them." "Naturally--I suppose you were worried.