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"Kitty can look after the house now better than she could," she said, "and I shall be glad of the rest and quiet. I shall not leave Gorlay. I want to be near you all, so that if Kitty wants any advice I shall be at hand to give it." So, seeing that her heart was set upon it, and feeling that the quieter, less busy home would be better for her, Dr.
She loved every inch of the house and garden, of Gorlay, and of her county, and every person and animal who made up her home and her home life loved all, too, with such an intensity that she felt it would be utterly impossible to live day after day away from them.
There isn't very much to see at Gorlay, but there are beautiful places all round it, and we could have some jolly times." "I'd love to come," said Pamela heartily. "I know I should enjoy myself tremendously, I feel it in my bones. But don't ask me if you don't really mean it, for I shall come, I tell you plainly."
"Hillside," the school to which they were being sent the only one of its kind in Gorlay, in fact was about ten minutes' walk from Dr. Trenire's house. "It is not, in the strict sense of the word, a school," Miss Richards always remarked to the parents of new pupils. "We want it to be 'a home from home' for our pupils, and I think I may say it is that."
And oh, Betty, I am so glad you did come home; there is trouble enough without losing you too. I was so frightened about you all the way down in the train " "Did you get my letter?" "Yes; it was that that brought me. I didn't know anything about Aunt Pike until I got to Gorlay Station." Betty crept over from her window-seat and stood by Kitty as she sat on her little bed.
But," growing very serious and dignified again, "I consider Dumble the most dishonourable man I ever met, and I'll never speak to him again never; and I'll have to leave Gorlay 'cause I can't never meet him again, for he ackshally took me up in his arms when the 'Rover' stopped at the wharf, and well, I was rather sleepy and I didn't see where I was going, but of course I trusted him, and when I opened my eyes why, I was home!
June had come, a brilliantly fine June, and overpoweringly hot. Wind-swept, treeless Gorlay lay shadeless and panting under the blazing sun, and the dwellers there determined that they preferred the cutting winds and driving rains to which they were better accustomed. Dr. Trenire had gone, and Betty and Tony had been inconsolable. The "locum," Dr.
Mokus stepped out at a pace that the carrots had never roused him to on the outward journey, yet darkness had come on before they reached Gorlay. "Isn't it like old times," sighed Betty happily, "driving through the dark and the wet, and then reaching home, and changing and having a jolly tea by the fire, and there will be no Aunt Pike, and we will be able to stay up as late as we like "
But other interests soon drove the matter from Kitty's mind, and she thought no more about it until Mrs. Pike and Anna returned to Gorlay a few days before the end of the holidays to see to Dan's and Kitty's outfits, and by that time Kitty was far too miserable at the prospect of returning to school to give more than a passing thought to her aunt's changed appearance.
She said, 'Oh, nonsense; little girls mustn't talk like that. I am going to Gorlay to chapel, and I will take you back with me. "Then I knew it wasn't any good to ask her to help me, and that I must sleep in the wood with all the wild beasts and things" Betty's face and her story grew more and more melodramatic "and as soon as she had gone to put on her bonnet, I ran into the woods for my life.
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