s were concerned) in one
and the same way--the way back to England.

"How to get there, and especially how to get there unaccompanied by
Midwinter, was more than I had wit enough to discover that night. I
tried and tried to meet the difficulty, and fell asleep exhausted toward
the morning without having met it.

"Some hours later, as soon as I was dressed, Midwinter came in, with
news received by that morning's post from his employers in London. The
proprietors of the newspaper had received from the editor so favorable
a report of his correspondence from Naples that they had determined on
advancing him to a place of greater responsibility and greater emolument
at Turin. His instructions were inclosed in the letter, and he was
requested to lose no time in leaving Naples for his new post.

"On hearing this, I relieved his mind, before he could put the question,
of all anxiety about my willingness to remove. Turin had the great
attraction, in my eyes, of being on the road to England. I assured him
at once that I was ready to travel as soon as he pleased.

"He thanked me for suiting myself to his plans, with more of his old
gentleness and kindness than I had seen in him for some time past. The
good news from Armadale on the previous day seemed to have roused him a
little from the dull despair in which he had been sunk since the sailing
of the yacht. And now the prospect of advancement in his profession,
and, more than that, the prospect of leaving the fatal place in which
the Third Vision of the Dream had come true, had (as he owned himself)
additionally cheered and relieved him. He asked, before he went away to
make the arrangements for our journey, whether I expected to hear from
my 'family' in England, and whether he should give instructions for the
forwarding of my letters with his own to the _poste restante_ at Turin.
I instantly thanked him, and accepted the offer. His proposal had
suggested to me, the moment he made it, that my fictitious 'family
circumstances' might be turned to good account once more, as a reason
for unexpectedly summoning me from Italy to England.

"On the ninth of the month we were installed at Turin.

"On the thirteenth, Midwinter--being then very busy--asked if I would
save him a loss of time by applying for any letters which might have
followed us from Naples. I had been waiting for the opportunity he now
offered me; and I determined to snatch at it without allowing myself
time to hesita