"Come along!" he shouted to Pamela, forgetting his shyness.

Pamela, though, with a wistful little smile on her lips, collected their belongings without much haste, and followed him, but very slowly.
For a moment she felt herself almost an intruder, but it was only for a moment; for Dr.Trenire, looking over the heads of Dan and Kitty, saw her, and guessing who she was, went at once and met her with such a cordial greeting that she felt herself one of them from that moment; and Kitty, remorseful for her forgetfulness, brought up Betty and Tony to be introduced.

Then Pamela was made to sit up in the carriage beside the doctor, with Kitty and Tony on the back seat, while Dan and Betty mounted to the top of the omnibus, and off they started in the gayest of spirits.

Prue, who could never endure to let any other horse pass her, insisted on racing the 'bus the whole way home, to the amusement of every one.

Betty and Tony shrieked with delight, Kitty sat beaming with a happiness so great as to seem almost unreal, while Pamela sat quietly taking it all in, and revelling in it, yet with a touch of sadness as she realized for the first time in her life how very much she had missed.
"Oh, isn't it like old times," sighed Kitty happily, "to be together again, and by ourselves.