And when the papers announced that, by Priam's wish, the Farll museum was to be carried to completion and formally conveyed to the nation, despite all, the nation decided to accept that honourable amend, and went off to the seaside for its annual holiday.
_The Will to Live_ Alice insisted on it, and so, immediately before their final departure from England, they went.

Priam pretended that the visit was undertaken solely to please her; but the fact is that his own morbid curiosity moved in the same direction.

They travelled by an omnibus past the Putney Empire and the Walham Green Empire as far as Walham Green, and there changed into another one which carried them past the Chelsea Empire, the Army and Navy Stores, and the Hotel Windsor to the doors of Westminster Abbey.

And they vanished out of the October sunshine into the beam-shot gloom of Valhalla.

It was Alice's first view of Valhalla, though of course she had heard of it.