y we
shall go to the White Sulphur at once."

"What! We are not to go to Carlsbad, then? Oh, Uncle Hutchinson, I had
set my heart upon it! Don't, now don't be in a hurry to say positively
that we won't go. Think how much good the waters will do you, and think
of what a lovely time you can have when your course is over, and you can
eat just as much as you want of anything!"

But even by this blissful prospect Mr. Port was not to be lured; and
Dorothy, who combined a good deal of the wisdom of the serpent with
her presumable innocence of the dove, perceived that it was the part of
prudence not further to press for larger victory.

"And from Saratoga, of course, we shall go to the Pier," said Mr. Port,
but with a certain aggressiveness of tone that gave to his assertion the
air of a proposition in support of which argument might be required.

"To Narragansett, you mean? Oh, certainly. From what several people have
told me about Narragansett I think that it must be quite entertaining,
and I want to see it. And of course, Uncle Hutchinson, even if I didn't
care about it at all, I should go all the same; for I want to fall in
exactly with your plans and put you to as little trouble as possible,
you know. For if your angel wasn't willing to be self-sacrificing, she
really wouldn't be an angel at all."

Pleasing though this statement of Early Christian sentiment was,
it struck Mr. Port--as he subsequently revolved it slowly in his
slowly-moving mind--as lacking a little on the side of practicality;
for Miss Lee, so far, unquestionably had contrived to upset with a fine
equanimity every one of his plans that was not absolutely identical with
her own.

III.

On the whole, the Saratoga expedition was not a success. Even on the
journey, coming up by the limited train, Miss Lee was not favorably
impressed by the appearance of her fellow-passengers. Nearly all of
the men in the car (most of whom immediately betook themselves to the
bar-room, euphoniously styled a buffet, at the head of the train) were
of a type that would have suggested to one accustomed to American life
that variety of it which is found seated in the high places of the
government of the city of New York; and the aggressively dressed and too
abundantly jewelled female companions of these men, heavily built,
heavy browed, with faces marked in hard lines, and with aggressive
eyes schooled to look out upon the world with a necessarily emphatic
self-assert