MRS. ROBERTS. Oh, Willis! Willis! Willis! To think of our meeting in
this way! [She kisses and embraces him, while MR. ROBERTS shakes one of
his hands which he finds disengaged.] _How_ in the world did it happen?

CAMPBELL. Ah, I found myself a little ahead of time, and I stopped off
with an old friend of mine at Framingham; I didn't want to disappoint you
when you came to meet this train, or get you up last night at midnight.

MRS. ROBERTS. And I was in Albany, and I've been moving heaven and earth
to get home before you arrived; and Edward came aboard at Worcester to
surprise me, and--Oh, you've never seen the baby! I'll run right and get
him this instant, just as he is, and bring him. Edward, you be
explaining to Willis--Oh, my goodness! [Looking wildly about.] I don't
remember the berth, and I shall be sure to wake up that poor California
gentleman again. _What_ shall I do?

CAMPBELL. What California gentleman?

MRS. ROBERTS. Oh, somebody we've been stirring up the whole blessed
night. First I took him for baby, and then Edward took him for me, and
then I took him for baby again, and then we both took him for you.

CAMPBELL. Did he look like any of us?

MRS. ROBERTS. Like _us_? He's eight feet tall, if he's an inch, in his
stockings--and he's always in them--and he has a long black beard and
mustaches, and he's very lanky, and stoops over a good deal; but he's
just as lovely as he can be and live, and he's been as kind and patient
as twenty Jobs.