Their hands clasped one into the other, close and strong.
"Colin wanted to come, but I wouldn't let him. It would have been too much for him. He might have cried or something … You mustn't mind if he cries when he sees you. He isn't quite right yet."
"No, but he's better."
"Ever so much better. He can do things on the farm now. He looks after the lambs and the chickens and the pigs. It's good for him to have something to do."
Jerrold agreed that it was good.
They had reached the Manor Farm now.
"Don't take any notice if he cries," she said.
Colin waited for him in the hall of the house. He was trying hard to control himself, but when he saw Jerrold coming up the path he broke down in a brief convulsive crying that stopped suddenly at the touch of Jerrold's hand.
Anne left them together.
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