I have promised Annie that I will be back before she sails.

It is not a very long journey down here, and I shall drop in for a fortnight's stay with you, as I have done this time." "She is in the next room, crying her eyes out, Dick.

You had better look in there, and say goodbye to her.

She is not fit to go down to the door." After parting with his mother, Dick went in to see Annie.
"You must not cry so, child," he said, as she rose from the divan, with her face swollen with crying.

"I am sure that you will be very happy here, until I come back." "I know, Dick; but it won't be at all the same, without you." "Oh, you will have plenty to do, and you will soon fall into regular ways.