in 1922 the great war was over , and stella declared that she would make the grand tour of europe which she had been denied before with a nurse for the baby , and lionel in tow quite reluctantly ( he had been reading law with cortland and he did not want to go ) , and cortland happy to take off from the firm though his wife disliked his doing it , the party went to europe first class , and spent a full year wandering about .