Miss Dawkins talked more than any one else,
being determined to show that she bore her defeat gallantly. Her
conversation, however, was chiefly addressed to M. Delabordeau, and he
seemed to think more of his cold chicken and ham than he did of her wit
and attention.
Fanny hardly spoke a word. There was her father before her and she
could not eat, much less talk, as she thought of all that she would
have to go through. What would he say to the idea of having an
American for a son-in-law?
Nor was Mr. Ingram very lively. A young man when he has been just
accepted, never is so. His happiness under the present circumstances
was, no doubt, intense, but it was of a silent nature.
And then the interior of the building had to be visited. To tell the
truth none of the party would have cared to perform this feat had it
not been for the honour of the thing. To have come from Paris, New
York, or London, to the Pyramids, and then not to have visited the very
tomb of Cheops, would have shown on the part of all of them an
indifference to subjects of interest which would have been altogether
fatal to their character as travellers.
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