Halcyone

Chapter 27

The Professor and his protge spent the whole of that July wandering in

Brittany--going from one old-world spot to another. There had not been

much opposition raised by Mr. and Mrs. Anderton to Halcyone's

accompanying her old master. They themselves were going to Scotland, and

there Mabel had decided she would no longer be kept in the schoolroom,

and intended to come forward as a grown-up girl assisting in the

hospitalities of her father's shooting lodge. And Mrs. Anderton, knowing

her temper, thought a rival of any sort might make difficulties. So, as

far as they were concerned, Halcyone might start at once. They always

left for the north in the middle of the month, and if the Professor

wanted to get away sooner, they did not wish to interfere with his

arrangements. Halcyone mus