CHAPTER 2.VII.Waldo Goes Out to Taste Life, and Em Stays At Home and.
Tastes It.
At nine o'clock in the evening, packing his bundles for the next morning's start, Waldo looked up, and was surprised to see Em's yellow head peeping in at his door.

It was many a month since she had been there.

She said she had made him sandwiches for his journey, and she stayed a while to help him put his goods into the saddlebags.
"You can leave the old things lying about," she said; "I will lock the room, and keep it waiting for you to come back some day." To come back some day! Would the bird ever return to its cage?
But he thanked her.

When she went away he stood on the doorstep holding the candle till she had almost reached the house.

But Em was that evening in no hurry to enter, and, instead of going in at the back door, walked with lagging footsteps round the low brick wall that ran before the house.