"He is...."
"Poor Miss Ross! But why does she have him there?"
"Oh, it's a long story—and here we are at the junction, and I'm not going on first to Amber Guiting—so there!"
Jan in the pony-cart was waiting outside when Meg came from the little station. Captain Middleton followed in her train, laden with parcels like a Father Christmas.
He packed her and the parcels in, covered both the ladies with the dust-holland, announced that he had bought a charger, and waited to get into
the Manor motor till they had driven out of the station.
They neither of them spoke till they had turned into the road. Then Jan quoted softly: "When I go to see my poor little papa, I shall go by train by myself."