Saturday at noon
And Alden Lytton rightly conjectured that she had gone away , and was staying away , for the one purpose of avoiding Emma and himself . So the young bride , with a sigh , reluctantly resigned all hope of seeing her unworthy `` friend '' before sailing for Europe . Early the next morning the newly-married pair took the steamboat for Washington , where in due time they safely arrived , and whence they took the train for the North . They reached New York on Thursday night , had one intervening day to see something of the city and to make some few last purchases for their voyage , and on Saturday at noon they embarked on the magnificent ocean steamship `` Pekin , '' bound from New York to Southampton . We must leave them on board their ship , and return and look up Mary Grey . After Mrs. Grey 's last interview with Alden Lytton , during which , partly because she lost her self-command and partly because she did not care longer to conceal her feelings , she had thrown off her mask , she sat down to review the situation . `` Well , I have betrayed myself , '' she mused .