When old Lady Fordham's long decay ended in death, Mrs. Evelyn would
not recall her sons to the funeral, but meant to go out herself to
join them, and offered to escort Mrs. Brownlow's daughters to the
meeting-place. This was to be Engelberg, for Dr. Medlicott had
decided that after the month at Leukerbad all his patients would be
much the better for a breath of the pine-woods on the Alpine height,
and undertook to see them conveyed thither in time to meet the
ladies.
This proposal set Miss Ogilvie free to join her brother, who had a
curacy in a seaside place where the season began just when the London
season ended. Her holiday was then to begin, and Janet was to write
to Mrs. Evelyn and declare herself ready to meet her in London at the
time appointed.
The arrangement was not to Janet's taste. She thought herself
perfectly capable of escorting the younger ones, especially as they
were to take their maid, a capable person named Delrio, daughter of
an Englishwoman and a German waiter, and widow of an Italian courier,
who was equal to all land emergencies, and could speak any language.
She belonged to the young ladies. Their mother, not liking strangers
about her, had, on old nurse's death, caused Emma to learn enough of
the lady's maid's art for her own needs at home, and took care of
herself abroad.
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