THE GOOD-BYE GATE Fortunately they were so late in getting to the station that there was no time for a prolonged leave-taking.

Phil hurried away to the baggage-room to check their trunks.

Henrietta made a move as if to follow.

Her overwrought sympathies kept her nervously opening and shutting her hands, for she dreaded scenes, and would not have put herself in the way of witnessing a painful parting, had she not thought she owed it to Joyce to stand by her to the last.
Joyce noticed the movement, and divining the cause, said with a little smile, as she laid a detaining hand on her arm, "Don't be scared, Henry.
We are not going to have any high jinks, are we, Mary.

We made the old Vicar's acquaintance too early in the game and have been practising his motto too many years to go back on him now.