Now you know she can't starve on ?50 a year
besides her medical education. Wakefield will always know where she
is, and you may be quite easy about her."
Caroline gave way to her son's reasoning, as he thought, but no
sooner was she alone with Jock than she told him that he must take
her to London to see Janet in her lodgings before the departure for
the States.
He was at her service, and as they did not mean to sleep in town,
they started at a preposterously early hour, with a certain mirth and
gaiety at thus eloping together, as the mother's spirits rose at the
bare idea of seeing the first-born child for whom she had famished so
long. Jock was such a perfect squire of dames, and so chivalrously
charmed to be her escort, that her journey was delightful, nor did
she grow sad till it was over. Then, she could not eat the food he
would have had her take at the station, and he saw tears standing in
her eyes as he sat beside her in the omnibus. When they were set
down they walked swiftly and without a word to the lodgings.
Dr. and Mrs. Hermann had "left two days ago," said the untidy girl,
whose aspect, like that of the street and house, betokened that Janet
was drinking of her bitter brewst.
"What shall we do, mother?" asked Jock.
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