"I advise you to go to the Duke's Head in Covent Garden, an easy, informal, old-fashioned place, and I'll have you put down at my club." "Do you mean it's improper ?" Isabel asked.

"Dear me, isn't anything proper here?
With Henrietta surely I may go anywhere; she isn't hampered in that way.

She has travelled over the whole American continent and can at least find her way about this minute island." "Ah then," said Ralph, "let me take advantage of her protection to go up to town as well.

I may never have a chance to travel so safely!".