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He escorted her as far as the door of her boudoir, and there he left her, saying that he would return in half an hour, hoping that would be sufficient time to exchange her bridal robes for her traveling-dress. She smiled and nodded, declaring that he should find her ready before that time. Hubert walked slowly on until he found himself at the door of the conservatory.
She had felt puzzled at the quiet marriage, and the sudden home-coming. If the new mistress of Beechgrove was an intimate friend of her Grace of Hazlewood's, as her words seemed to imply, then all must be well. When Lady Arleigh had changed her traveling-dress, she went down-stairs. Her young husband looked up in a rapture of delight. "Oh, Madaline," he said, "how long have you been away from me?
The bridegroom's health followed, and Coventry returned thanks in a speech so neat and well delivered that Grace felt proud of his performance. Then the carriage and four came round, and Coventry gave Grace an imploring glance on which she acted at once, being herself anxious to escape from so much publicity. She made her courtesies, and retired to put on her traveling-dress. Then Dr.
If he will tell anybody, he will tell you. Can you go to Louisville at once?" Yes, at once. The traveling-dress, made up for so different an occasion, was donned, and under escort she went, by a hundred miles of horseback ride, to the nearest railway station. There was no tarrying by the way: the colonel's influence provided relays. On the evening of the third day she was with her lover.
Here were this young lady and his friend, who had known each other for three days, perhaps, in the most casual way, and her friends had her already as good as married to him and off on a wedding journey. All that Mr. King said, after apparent deep cogitation, was, "I suppose if it were here it would have to be in a traveling-dress," which the women thought frivolous.
Thank God it is over, and I am gone to put on my traveling-dress! The odious parting moment has come. The carriage is at the door: the maid and valet are in the dickey. What a pity that they are not bride and bridegroom too! Vick has jumped in alert and self-respecting again now that she has bitten off her favor. I have begun my voluminous farewells.
"Miss, you'd do well to change right here," said Roy, earnestly. "It'll save time in the long run an' a lot of sufferin' before sunup." Helen stared at the young man, absolutely amazed with his simplicity. She was advised to change her traveling-dress for a riding-suit out somewhere in a cold, windy desert in the middle of the night among strange young men!
But Kate, at this hideous detail, fell with a low, wailing cry to the floor, happily dead to the woful consciousness of the scene and its meaning. Jones ran to the door, and, unlocking it, shouted for the servants. When they came, she was carried to her room and the physician summoned. Almost at the same time Olympia, in her traveling-dress, drove up.
On the morning of the fifteenth of October the Kronborg family, all of them but Gus, who couldn't leave the store, started for the station an hour before train time. Charley had taken Thea's trunk and telescope to the depot in his delivery wagon early that morning. Thea wore her new blue serge traveling-dress, chosen for its serviceable qualities.
Pass her plate!" "Not at present, Mr. Quin," said Mr. Vane, hastily. "She is about to retire and change her traveling-dress." "Yes, dear; but, you forget, I am a stranger to your friends. Will you not introduce me to them first?" "No, no!" cried Vane, in trepidation. "It is not usual to introduce in the beau monde." "We always introduce ourselves," rejoined Mrs. Woffington.
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