CHAPTER VI DEPARTURE

The Monday fixed for Shirley’s departure came round in due course, and the last breakfast she and Bob shared was somewhat of a melancholy meal. It was the first time since their schooldays that the brother and sister had ever been separated for more than a few days together, and in some vague fashion, hardly realized, the occasion signalized to each of them a great change in their lives, a dividing line betwixt a past which had been mutually shared and a future which would be intrinsically separate and individual. …