"I can't do without you much longer, daddy. I should like to come home at once, but of course I must wait till the strike is over. The rooms that the Chaplins are to have are almost ready, and Winny will be coming here next week I expect, so I shall wait and see her and help Mrs. Chaplin get things straight, and then I can tell you all how she is when I come home."
This plan of Annie's was adopted as being the best that could be devised, and the very Monday that the men went back to work in the docks again, Mrs. Chaplin, Winny, and Letty set out on their journey to their country home.
All sorts of little comforts had been provided by Miss Lavender to lighten the invalid's journey, and give her strength to endure what she feared would be a very painful experience to the girl.
It certainly did try her very much, and, in spite of all her mother's care and her teacher's forethought, she fainted two or three times before she got to her journey's end. But when at last the station was reached, her troubles were over, for there was her father, looking so stout and strong, ready to lift her out of the carriage to a little swing-bed he had contrived for her between some boxes in the wagon his master had lent him to fetch them home in.
The furniture had been sent on from London the week before, and Annie had been all day getting things comfortable for the travellers.
Letty fairly screamed with delight when she saw her new home, but Winny was too tired to do more than look round at the sunny fields and up at the window which her father told her was to be her own, and then with a feeble smile at Annie she said: "God is very good to everybody. I shall have a front window after all."