Stories by English Authors: Germany (Selected by Scribners) by William Black et al.

It was about four in the afternoon when a young girl came into the salon of the little hotel at C—— in Switzerland, and drew her chair up to the fire.
“You are soaked through,” said an elderly lady, who was herself trying to get roasted. “You ought to lose no time in changing your clothes.”
“I have not anything to change,” said the young girl, laughing. “Oh, I shall soon be dry!”
“Have you lost all your luggage?” asked the lady, sympathetically.