Horace Campbell sided with Gregory, while Hester voted continually and
feelingly for Stratford-on-Avon. To see Stratford-on-Avon--that was her
idea: to walk through the same streets as her beloved Shakespeare, to see
the place where his house had stood, to row on his river, to stand by his
tomb!

When the time came to discuss the journey seriously, it was Hester who won.
Stratford-on-Avon was decided on, with an extension to Bredon Hill as the
farthest point away, returning by way of Cheltenham and Cirencester to
Faringdon (for the White Horse), and then taking train for home, and
leaving Kink and Moses to do the remaining seventy miles alone.

The distance from Bredon to Faringdon through Cheltenham, Cirencester, and
Fairford, was roughly forty-five miles, or five days of nine miles each.
Starting at Oxford, as was proposed, they would be three or four days in
getting to Stratford, and two days there; three days more, at the most, in
getting to Bredon, This would make eleven days altogether, which would
make, with rests on the two Sundays, and one whole day at the White Horse,
the full fortnight.

This, then, is what was at last decided: that Kink should get the caravan
to Oxford and be all ready for the children to join him on the Wednesday
morning. They should go down to Oxford on the day before and be looked
after by Mr. Lenox's young brother, who was at Oriel.

They should leave Oxford in the caravan on the next morning on their way to
Stratford-on-Avon.

The distance from Oxford to Stratford was thirty-nine miles, and it was
decided to do this in three days, which meant thirteen miles a day. The