She was finding it hard enough to face the coming separation with outward cheerfulness, and the long ride to the railway station she found to be too great a strain.

So she made the lameness of George Washington's off fore leg an excuse for keeping that personage in the stable, and it was in Winnie S.'s depot-wagon that Emily journeyed to the Centre.
They said good-by at the front gate.

Emily, too, was trying to appear cheerful, and the parting was hurried.
"Good-by, Auntie," she said.

"Take care of yourself.

Write often and I will answer, I promise you.