Lodgings had now been taken for them, and there
was the great additional doubt whether Mrs Trevelyan would find her
child there on her arrival.
The Spaldings went one way from the Florence station, and the Rowleys
another. The American Minister had returned to the city some days
previously, drawn there nominally by pleas of business, but, in truth,
by the necessities of the wedding breakfast, and he met them at the
station. 'Has Mr Glascock come back?' Nora was the first to ask. Yes he
had come. He had been in the city since two o'clock, and had been up at
the American Minister's house for half a minute. 'And has he brought
the child?' asked Caroline, relieved of doubt on her own account. Mr
Spalding did not know; indeed, he had not interested himself quite so
intently about Mrs Trevelyan's little boy, as had all those who had
just returned from the Baths. Mr Glascock had said nothing to him about
the child, and he had not quite understood why such a man should have
made a journey to Siena, leaving his sweetheart behind him, just on the
eve of his marriage.
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