"When do you go back to Oxford?"
"The beginning of next week; it is a grind! I feel as if I had only just come down."
They were early for the train, and walked up and down the platform till it came up. As they did so, Marjorie kept remembering many little things she wanted to say to Phyllis.
"Don't forget Leila's tea in the morning. You will get up, won't you?"
"Oh yes, Marjorie."
"And look after mother, and if she seems tired, get her to rest a little. And, Phyllis, do be careful that Carl doesn't go near the river; that garden gate ought always to be kept shut."
Then the engine came steaming into the station with the Cockermouth train behind it, and in a few minutes Marjorie was leaning out of the window and waving a last good-bye to Louis and Phyllis, who had run to the end of the platform to watch the train out of sight.
[CHAPTER XI]
DAISY BANK
IT was quite dark that evening when Marjorie drew near her journey's end. She had to change at Wolverhampton and to go to another station, that she might travel by the Great Western line.