Their parents could spare them no longer.

Mrs.Stanhope bade them good-bye with the assurance that she should depend on having another visit from them next year, so that it was plain that she felt no serious displeasure with them.

They were grateful for her forgiveness, and fervently resolved that next year she should have nothing to forgive.
The three travellers went rapidly on towards their own dear home.

At the last station their father's carriage was waiting for them.

A shout of joy hailed them.