A voyage of discovery—A plain statement, leading to the conviction that even where ignorance is not bliss, knowledge is not always hap- piness—A hasty friendship that may nevertheless prove lasting

To order the carriage, and to give Mrs. Tremlett notice that she wished her to make all speed in preparing to accompany her in it, was to Miss Brotherton the work of a moment. As the business she was upon might, however, take some hours, she urged her old friend to eat luncheon as if certain of having no dinner; and having given time for this, and interrogated her coachman concerning distance and so forth, the hopeful, animated girl, sprung into her carriage as the clock struck two, determined not to re-enter her mansion till she had lost some portion of the ignorance which had of late so cruelly tormented her.