Then down below she wrote: "But now I have come to the Good-bye Gate.

Good-bye to all my good times.

So good-bye, even to you, little book, since you were to mark only the hours that shine.

Here at the bottom of the page I must write the words, '_The End_.'" When they reached Warwick Hall she was too tired to begin any preparations that night for the longer journey, and still so dazed with the thought of Jack's calamity to be keenly alive to the fact that this was the last night she would ever spend in the beloved room.

She was thankful to have it to herself for these last few hours, and thankful when Betty and Madam Chartley finally went out and left her alone.