The guard whistled. Carriage doors slammed one after another. The train moved forward.
Jerrold ran alongside. "I say, you'll let Col-Col play on that piano?"
Anne was gone.
III
ANNE AND JERROLD
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"'Where have you been all the day, Rendal, my son?
Where have you been all the day, my pretty one?…'"
Five years had passed. It was August, nineteen ten.
Anne had come again. She sat out on the terrace with Adeline, while
Colin's song drifted out to them through the open window.
It was her first day, the first time for three years. Anne's calendar was blank from nineteen seven to nineteen ten. When she was seventeen she had left Cheltenham and gone to live with Grandpapa Everitt at the Essex farm. Grandpapa Everitt wanted her more than Grandmamma Severn, who had Aunt Emily; so Anne had stayed with him all that time. She had spent it learning to farm and looking after Grandpapa on his bad days. For the last year of his life all his days had been bad. Now he was dead, dead three months ago, and Anne had the farm. She was going to train for five years under the man who had worked it for Grandpapa; after that she meant to manage it herself.