"We have been very unlucky so far, have not we ?" "Are you so anxious to meet people?
are you so dull already, Nancy ?" he asks, in that voice of peculiar gentleness which I have already learned to know hides inward pain.
"Oh, no, no!" cry I, with quick remorse.

"Not at all! I have always _longed_ to travel! At one time Barbara and I were always talking about it, making plans, you know, of where we would go.

I enjoy it, of all things, especially the pictures--but do not you think it would be amusing to have some one to talk to at the _tables d'hote_, some one English, to laugh at the people with ?" "Yes," he answers, readily, "of course it would.

It is quite natural that you should wish it.

I heartily hope we shall.