s. But she averred that she did not care;
what he had said was true, and she should always hold him to it.

They were again in the wedding-journey sentiment in which they had left
Carlsbad, when they found themselves alone together after their escape
from the pressure of others' interests. The tide of travel was towards
Frankfort, where the grand parade was to take place some days later.
They were going to Weimar, which was so few hours out of their way
that they simply must not miss it; and all the way to the old literary
capital they were alone in their compartment, with not even a stranger,
much less a friend to molest them. The flying landscape without was of
their own early autumnal mood, and when the vineyards of Wurzburg ceased
to purple it, the heavy after-math of hay and clover, which men, women,
and children were loading on heavy wains, and driving from the meadows
everywhere, offered a pastoral and pleasing change. It was always the
German landscape; sometimes flat and fertile, sometimes hilly and poor;
often clothed with dense woods, but always charming, with castled tops
in ruin or repair, and with levels where Gothic villages drowsed within
their walls, and dreamed of the mediaeval past, silent, without apparent
life, except for some little goose-girl driving her flock before her
as she sallied out into the nineteenth century in search of fresh
pasturage.

As their train mounted among the Thuringian uplands they were aware of
a finer, cooler air through their open window. The torrents foamed white
out of the black forests of fir and pine, and brawled along the valleys,
where the hamlets roused themselves in momentary curiosity as the train
roared into them from the many tunnels. The afternoon sunshine had
the glister of mountain sunshine everywhere, and the travellers had a
pleasant bewilderment in which their memories of Switzerland and
the White Mountains mixed with long-dormant emotions from Adirondack
sojourns. They chose this place and that in the lovely region where they
lamented that they had not come at once for the after-cure, and they
appointed enough returns to it in future years to consume all the
summers they had left to live.

LIX.

It was falling night when they reached Weimar, where they found at the
station a provision of omnibuses far beyond the hotel accommodations.
They drove first to the Crown-Prince, which was in a promising state
of reparation, but which for the present cou