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Afterward they had lunch , and Jason Jones was still in high spirits and seemed more eager and excited than Alora had ever before known him . `` We 're going across the big water -- to Europe , '' he told her at luncheon , `` so if there is anything you positively need for the trip , tell me what it is and I 'll buy it . No frivolities , though , '' qualifying his generosity , `` but just stern necessities . And you must think quick , for our boat leaves at four o'clock and we 've no time to waste . '' But Alora shook her head . Once she had been taken by her mother to London , Paris and Rome , but all her wants had been attended to and it was so long ago -- four or five years -- that that voyage was now but a dim remembrance . No one noticed them when they went aboard .