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 responsiblity for her sister's safety.
"What do you think of her throat?"
"Ah, bye the bye, her throat, I have not
