 The three sailed to Europe, and made their way across France to Switzerland on foot, reading aloud from the works of Rousseau, Shakespeare, and Mary's mother, Mary Wollstonecraft (an account of their travels was subsequently published by the Shelleys).After six weeks, homesick and destitute, the three young people returned to England.The enraged William Godwin refused to see them, though he still demanded money, to be given to him under another name, to avoid scandal.