Kitty and Pamela were to wait until the eleven o'clock train, for Dan, who broke up on the same day, could join them then at their station, and they could all travel down together.
It was not nearly eleven when they reached the station; but how could they stay quietly in the dull, deserted house waiting for the hours to go by?
Miss Hammond saw that it was too much to expect of them, so took them down very early; for a railway station, with its bustle and life, is a capital place for making time pass.
"It all seems too lovely to be real," sighed Kitty happily.

"To be going home, to be meeting Dan, to be travelling by ourselves, and to have no lessons for more than three weeks! It seems too much happiness all at once, and I am afraid I shall wake up presently and find it a dream, as I so often have.

I understand now what Dan meant by saying it was almost worth going away to have the going home.

I do think, though," with sudden alarm, "that Dan must have missed his train.
I am sure it must be nearly afternoon." "It is five minutes past eleven," laughed Miss Hammond, "and there is his train now coming in, and there--if I don't mistake--is Dan." But Kitty had seen him first, and was flying down the platform to meet him.

Dan, recognizing the flying figure, stood and warded her off with the umbrella and bag he had in his hands.