Branwell, her darling, was to have had his share; but his reckless expenditure had distressed the good old lady, and his name was omitted in her will.
When the first shock was over, the three sisters began to enjoy the full relish of meeting again, after the longest separation they had had in their lives.

They had much to tell of the past, and much to settle for the future.

Anne had been for some little time in a situation, to which she was to return at the end of the Christmas holidays.

For another year or so they were again to be all three apart; and, after that, the happy vision of being together and opening a school was to be realised.

Of course they did not now look forward to settling at Burlington, or any other place which would take them away from their father; but the small sum which they each independently possessed would enable them to effect such alterations in the parsonage-house at Haworth as would adapt it to the reception of pupils.