I am allowed to walk again, and I am going home to-morrow." "Not if I know it," said Mrs.Errol stoutly.

"Or if you do, I go too, to take care of you." Anne smiled at her without replying.

"Sit down, Dot," she said, "and tell me all the news.

I know you hear everything." "But nothing has happened," said Dot.

"Everybody is squabbling as usual about the Town Hall, why we want one, why there isn't one, and when we are going to have one.