ing jaunt, and it was
settled that, as originally intended, they should proceed in a
neighbour's sailing boat to the metropolis of the district.

In this way they arrived at Pen-zephyr without difficulty or mishap.
Bidding adieu to Jenkin and his man, who had sailed them over, they
strolled arm in arm off the pier, Baptista silent, cold, and obedient.
Heddegan had arranged to take her as far as Plymouth before their return,
but to go no further than where they had landed that day. Their first
business was to find an inn; and in this they had unexpected difficulty,
since for some reason or other--possibly the fine weather--many of the
nearest at hand were full of tourists and commercial travellers. He led
her on till he reached a tavern which, though comparatively unpretending,
stood in as attractive a spot as any in the town; and this, somewhat to
their surprise after their previous experience, they found apparently
empty. The considerate old man, thinking that Baptista was educated to
artistic notions, though he himself was deficient in them, had decided
that it was most desirable to have, on such an occasion as the present,
an apartment with 'a good view' (the expression being one he had often
heard in use among tourists); and he therefore asked for a favourite room
on the first floor, from which a bow-window protruded, for the express
purpose of affording such an outlook.

The landlady, after some hesitation, said she was sorry that particular
apartment was engaged; the next one, however, or any other in the house,
was unoccupied.

'The gentleman who has the best one will give it up to-morrow, and then
you can change into it,' she added, as Mr. Heddegan hesitated about
taking the adjoining and less commanding one.

'We shall be gone to-morrow, and shan't want it,' he said.

Wishing not to lose customers, the landlady earnestly continued that
since he was bent on having the best room, perhaps the other gentleman
would not object to move at once into the one they despised, since,
though nothing could be seen from the window, the room was equally large.

'Well, if he doesn't care for a view,' said Mr. Heddegan, with the air of
a highly artistic man who did.

'O no--I am sure he doesn't,' she said. 'I can promise that you shall
have the room you want. If you would not object to go for a walk for
half an hour, I could have it ready, and your things in it, and a nice
tea laid in the bow-window by the time you c