He had been responsible for the party all day, and now he was done.

Miriam understood, and kept close to him, and he left himself in her hands.
They had an hour to wait at Ambergate Station.

Trains came, crowded with excursionists returning to Manchester, Birmingham, and London.
"We might be going there--folk easily might think we're going that far," said Paul.
They got back rather late.

Miriam, walking home with Geoffrey, watched the moon rise big and red and misty.

She felt something was fulfilled in her.
She had an elder sister, Agatha, who was a school-teacher.