The next day the Herberts went home; but the holidays and pleasant social intercourse did not even then come to an end.
"You know you are to return with us, Grace," said Miss Herbert.
"I should like to do so, for some reasons very much, but"—
"But what!"
"I do not care to leave home, and be away from my father and mother," said Grace.
"Now, Grace, you must not be foolish. You will appreciate your home all the more for having been absent from it for a time," said Miss Herbert.
"And a change will be good for you," urged her sister.
"Besides, you can help us very much with the harvest again this year. We shall begin to-morrow," said George.
Grace hesitated; and it was not until her parents, though admitting that they would miss her very much, and that the lighthouse would be most lonely when she had gone, yet pressed her to go for a few days, that she consented.
She found the "adieus" very difficult to utter, when she went away, for she was a home-loving girl.