greatest use.

Collins, when she heard later some hint of the possible route the caravan
would follow, became not only a supporter of the scheme, but an enthusiast,
because her own home was not distant, and she made the children promise to
spend a day there with her brother, the farmer. She also gave Janet some
lessons in frying-pan cooking.

Runcie never became an enthusiast, but she allowed herself to be
interested, if cautionary.

"To think of the nice comfortable beds you will be leaving," she would say.

"A horse is a vain thing for safety," she would say.

"The blisters you'll get on your poor feet!" she would say.

"The indigestion!" she would say.

"Living like gypsies," she would say.

"No proper washing or anything," she would say.

"Cheer up, Runcie,îGregory would reply; "you're not going."

"And glad I am I'm not," she would answer.

"I wish you were, Runcie, and then we'd show you in the villages as 'The
Old-Woman-Who-Can't-See-Any-Fun-in-Caravaning' Walk up! Walk up! A penny a
peep!"