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Nevertheless the
preparations went on busily, and when the party arrived at seven
o'clock in the evening, two rooms had been prepared close to each
other, one for the two sisters, and the other for the child and nurse,
although poor Mr Outhouse himself was turned out of his own little
chamber in order that the accommodation might be given. They were all
very hot, very tired, and very dusty, when the cab reached the
parsonage. There had been the preliminary drive from Nuncombe Putney to
Lessboro'. Then the railway journey from thence to the Waterloo Bridge
Station had been long. And it had seemed to them that the distance from
the station to St. Diddulph's had been endless. When the cabman was
told whither he was to go, he looked doubtingly at his poor old horse,
and then at the luggage which he was required to pack on the top of his
cab, and laid himself out for his work with a full understanding that
it would not be accomplished without considerable difficulty. The
cabman made it twelve miles from Waterloo Bridge to St.


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