"Do you?" said Mullally. "But I thought you didn't change until you got to Whitcombe Junction?"
"I don't" said Henry, "but I get out at the next station!"
"I see," said Mullally.
"About time," Henry thought.
6
After dinner, he asked Mary to walk to the village with him.
"Isn't it late?" Mrs. Graham objected.
"Oh, no," he answered. "It's a beautiful moonlight night, and I feel I want to stretch my legs. I've been cooped up in the train best part of the day. Come along, Mary!"
"I'll just get my coat," she said.
When they were ready, he put his arm in hers, and they walked down the long lane, past the copse and through the pine trees, to the village.