They would dine at a coffee-house and go afterwards
to the play; they would frequent the Abbey and the British Museum
and find out where Doctor Johnson had lived, and Goldsmith and
Addison. Isabel grew eager and presently unveiled the bright vision to
Ralph, who burst into a fit of laughter which scarce expressed the
sympathy she had desired.
"It's a delightful plan," he said. "I advise you to go to the Duke's
Head in Covent Garden, an easy, informal, old-fashioned place, and
I'll have you put down at my club."
"Do you mean it's improper?" Isabel asked. "Dear me, isn't
anything proper here? With Henrietta surely I may go anywhere; she
isn't hampered in that way. She has travelled over the whole
American continent and can at least find her way about this minute
island."
"Ah then," said Ralph, "let me take advantage of her protection to
go up to town as well. I may never have a chance to travel so safely!"
CHAPTER 14
Miss Stackpole would have prepared to start immediately; but Isabel,
as we have seen, had been notified that Lord Warburton would come
again to Gardencourt, and she believed it her duty to remain there and
see him.
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