"I'd never forgive whoever told him.

I can only stay a week.

I've arranged it all beautifully, and I shall live here in this loft; Father never dreams of coming here, so it will be quite safe, and you can all bring me food.

And then after a week"-- she sighed heavily--"I must go back again." "Did you really walk all those miles just to see us ?" Pip said, and again there was the strange note in his voice.
"I got a lift or two on the way," she said, "but I walked nearly all of it, I've been coming for nearly a week:" "How COULD you do it?
Where did you sleep, Judy?
What did you eat ?" Meg exclaimed, in deep distress.
"I nearly forget," Judy said; closing her eyes again.

"I kept asking for food at little cottages, and sometimes they asked me to sleep, and I had three-and-six--that went a long way.