Several days later Babbie got a note from John, forwarded from her Paris address, which seemed to disprove Babe’s theory. They had all three gone to see the girls off, he explained, but Mr. Trevelyan had for once proved unreliable; he had made an unaccountable mistake about the station, which John had discovered too late to correct. So they had waited for the girls at Paddington while the girls watched for them in Waterloo. “He got us there an hour early too,” John wrote. “Insisted that you said eight forty-five instead of nine. And we were all awfully sleepy, because after we left you we took a long ’bus ride through the East End and then stopped on the Embankment for supper. Dwight hasn’t finished reading through the British Museum, so I don’t know when we may get to Paris. However, I still find London very interesting”--a conclusion which made everybody but Babe smile.