"Yes," said Alice; "I am going with them for a long tour. We shall not return, I fancy, till the end of next winter."
"Plans of that sort are as easily broken as they are made," said her father. "You won't be your own mistress; and I advise you not to count too surely upon getting further than Baden."
"If Mr. Palliser changes his mind of course I shall come home," said Alice, with a little attempt at a smile.
"I should think him a man not prone to changes," said Grey. "But all London is talking about his change of mind at this moment. They say at the clubs that he might have been in the Cabinet if he would, but that he has taken up this idea of going abroad at the moment when he was wanted."
"It's his wife's doing, I take it," said Mr. Vavasor.

"Yes," said Alice. "We shall not return, I fancy, till the end of next winter."
"Plans of that sort are easily broken," said her father. "I advise you not to count too surely upon getting further than Baden."
"If Mr. Palliser changes his mind of course I shall come home," said Alice, with an attempt at a smile.
"I should think him a man not prone to changes," said Grey. "But all London is talking about his change of mind at this moment. They say he might have been in the Cabinet, but that he has taken up this idea of going abroad."
"It's his wife's doing, I presume," said Mr. Vavasor.
