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 hurry on. She has already spent two winters in Egypt; and as it is now the off season there, and hot, she was for sailing calmly by. At this point, however, I—who have not seen Egypt—rebelled. So we shall go up the Nile at least to Assouan, and then return to Port Said and take ship for Marseilles. As that will be about the fifteenth of next month, can't you join us there?

"I am overjoyed to think that you are bringing back old Chao Phya. You cannot imagine our surprise when you went plunging down the gang-plank to rescue him.… Aunt Julia still thinks that every one had gone mad after the cat. We are both consumed to hear what it was all about, and why they locked you up and chased you, and whether they killed that poor wretched Borkman, and what your despatch means by 'Collar had ruby, now lost.' I have invented wild romances to explain it all.