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TO COW FARM!.
I This next episode in Jeremy's year has, be it thoroughly understood, no plot nor climax to it--it is simply the chronicle of an Odyssey.

Nor can it be said to have been anything but a very ordinary Odyssey to the outside observer who, if he be a parent, will tell you that going to the seaside with the family is the most bothering thing in the world, and if he is a bachelor or old maid will tell you that being in the same carriage with other people's children who are going to the sea is an abominable business and the Law ought to have something to say to it.
All through May, June and July Mrs.Cole slowly pulled back to something like her natural health.

The new infant, Barbara by name, was as strong as a pony, and kicked and screamed and roared so that the house was quite a new place.

Her arrival had done a great deal for Helen, whose gaze had hitherto been concentrated entirely upon herself; now she suddenly discovered a new element in life, and it was found that she was "ideal with a baby" and "a great help to nurse." This made her more human, and Barbara, realising as babies always do who understands and who does not, would behave with Helen when she would behave with no one else.