It is good to think of, isn't it ?" "Oh yes," cried Kitty, much more cheerfully, "and I hope he will get off soon, for I know he will get no rest while he is in Gorlay.

I have never known father have a holiday." "Then let us all try to make it a really happy one now," said Miss Pidsley, and she went away leaving Kitty much comforted.
Three days later Dr.Trenire came up to say "good-bye," and at the end of a long, pleasant day together, happy in spite of the parting before them, Kitty bade him "good-bye" with a brave and smiling face, and sent him back to Gorlay cheered and comforted, and with at least one care less on his mind; for in his heart he had been dreading that day, because of Kitty's grief at parting..