"No."
"I can't think how she could want to go."
"Nor I. But she's going."
"I shall go down and see if I can't make her stay."
"Do. But you won't if I can't," he said.
iii
Maisie went down early in the afternoon to see Anne.
She couldn't think how Anne could want to leave the Barrow Farm house when she had just got into it, when they had all made it so nice for her; she couldn't think how she could leave them when she cared for them, when she knew how they cared for her.
"You do care for us, Anne?"
"Oh yes, I care."