CHAPTER V.
CAR FORTY-SEVEN.
It is they who stay behind who suffer most from leave-takings.

Those who go have the continual change of scenes and impressions to help them to forget; those who remain must bear as best they may the dull heavy sense of loss and separation.
The parting at Burnet was not a cheerful one.

Clover was oppressed with the nearness of untried responsibilities; and though she kept up a brave face, she was inwardly homesick.

Phil slept badly the night before the start, and looked so wan and thin as he stood on the steamer's deck beside his sisters, waving good-by to the party on the wharf, that a new and sharp thrill of anxiety shot through his father's heart.

The boy looked so young and helpless to be sent away ill among strangers, and round-faced little Clover seemed such a fragile support! There was no help for it.