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 Dresden figure. Well, I wish you well through it; I have left a prescription for your cold in case you do not get off to-day. Of course you have your passports ready?" He felt certain she had not.

"Passports!" said Blanche eagerly, "no, that I haven't. I never thought about them, must I have a passport?"

"It is generally considered necessary for travellers on the continent."

"Well then, I can't go to-day."

"I never supposed you could," said Dr. Ayscough, laughing. "I will come and see how the cold goes on to-morrow, and perhaps this evening's post may bring a letter; and then you will not start for Berlin till the afternoon. Good morning."

He was waylaid in the hall by Aunt Sarah, who had somehow taken a diphtheria alarm, and by Aileen, who was frightened out of her senses at this sudden journey, and her responsiblityresponsibility [sic] for her sister's safety.

"What do you think of her throat?"

"Ah, bye the bye, her throat, I have not