You will promise me that, won't you ?" "My dear boy, don't make me regret your going more than I should do.

In any case, I shall miss you daily." They had reached the Cottage, and Lucia came out to meet them.
"How slowly you came!" she cried.

"I thought you never meant to arrive.
Mamma, you look dreadfully tired.

What have you been doing to her, Maurice ?" She was talking fast, to keep, if possible, their attention from herself; for, to confess the truth, she had been indulging in a little cry all alone, and did not care that her red eyelids should betray her; but she might have spared the trouble.

No word or look of hers was likely to pass unnoticed in that last precious few minutes, though they all sat down together, and tried to talk of indifferent matters as if there had been the least possibility, just then, of any other thought than that of parting.
After a short time, Maurice rose.
"I must give my father the last hour," he said, "and the boat is due at six." "But it does not ever leave before seven," Lucia answered, "and it is still a quarter to five." "I have to meet it when it comes in.