She seemed quite altered to-day somehow, so small and shrivelled, or something." But other interests soon drove the matter from Kitty's mind, and she thought no more about it until Mrs.Pike and Anna returned to Gorlay a few days before the end of the holidays to see to Dan's and Kitty's outfits, and by that time Kitty was far too miserable at the prospect of returning to school to give more than a passing thought to her aunt's changed appearance.
Anna was quite strong again, though her old nervous, restless manner had not left her, and she still had the same difficulty in meeting one's eyes fairly and squarely.
"Your cousin looks as though she had something on her mind," said Pamela.

"Do you think she has ?" "I don't know," said Kitty; "at least I don't think it would trouble her much if she had.

She didn't really enjoy herself at Newquay.

She says she is very glad to be home again, and I should think she would be too," added poor homesick Kitty.

"I am sure I should get well here quicker than anywhere," and Pamela agreed.
"I think it was nonsense of Dan to say it was worth while to go away to have the pleasure of coming home," she moaned when the last day came.
"I am sure _nothing_ could make up to me for the misery of going, and I think it is worse the second time than the first." Poor Kitty's woe was so great that at last her father was driven to expostulate.