sleep in your arms. I've had quite a nice nap, and I'm not so very
tired. Thank you very much for being so very good to me. Are we near
Rosebury now, please?"

"In half an hour you'll get there, dear. Now I must say good-bye, for
this is my station. Good-bye, missy, and a safe journey to you."

"I'm so sorry you are going away," said Daisy, and she raised her
little lips to kiss her friend.

"God bless you, love," said the nice, pleasant-faced woman, and then
she got out of the carriage, nodding her head to Daisy as she walked
away.

The loneliness which had more or less been soothed or kept in abeyance
by this good woman's company now returned very strongly, and Daisy had
to feel a certain empty little purse which she held in her pocket to
keep up her resolution. She did not seem so certain about Mrs.
Ellsworthy being nice and kind as she was the night before. The
third-class carriage in which she had travelled was now nearly empty,
and when she at last arrived at Rosebury she was the only passenger to
alight. She gave up her ticket and walked out of the station, a
forlorn and unnoticed little personage. It was still very early in the
morning, not quite six o'clock, and there were very few people about,
and the whole place had a strange, deserted, and unhomelike feeling.
Could this be the Rosebury where Daisy was born, where she had been so
petted and loved? She did not like its aspect in the cold grey morning
light. There was a little drizzling mist falling, and it chilled her
and made her shiver.