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roadway station, I was sorely afraid that my
companions would be spoiled, and form expectations
of Norwegian accommodation that would lead to
serious disappointment afterwards. But as we
proceeded I gradually learned that I had hitherto
been over-anxious, and had under-estimated the
capability of delicately-reared English ladies to
endure the hardships of rough travel. Now that
it is all safely over, I do not mind confessing that
I was at first terribly nervous, positively frightened
at the responsibilities I had assumed, and as the
time for starting from London approached, was
almost wishing for an attack of the gout, or for a
carbuncle, or some such valid excuse for giving up
the enterprise. During all our long sea journey—the
first and largest part of the trip from Hull to
Bergen, and then round the North Cape and back
to Trondhjem—I looked forward to this overland
carriole climax with fear and trembling, and
artfully arranged the route so that there should be a
gradual initiation into Norwegian hardship, that
the roughest and hardest part of the journey
should come towards the end, when some training
had been achieved.
But my terrors proved to be all delusions. I
am now quite convinced that English ladies can
travel and endure hardship just as well as
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