7“Nevertheless I did see Hetty again before she left England. There came a letter for me at Thunderstone House in which she proposed a meeting.
“‘You have been so kind to me,’ she wrote. ‘It is the next best thing to your never having left me. You have been a generous dear. You’ve given back happiness to me. I feel excited already at the thought of the great liner and the ocean and full of hope. We’ve got a sort of picture of the ship; it is like a great hotel; with our cabin marked in it exactly where it is. Canada will be wonderful; Our Lady of the Snows; and we are going by way of New York, New York like nothing else on earth, cliffs and crags of windows, towering up to the sky. And it’s wonderful to have new things again. I sneak off to Fanny’s just to finger them over. I’m excited—ye
