Anderton had already
put off her departure by the seven-twenty train from Applewood to
Upminster on purpose to wait for Halcyone, and now proposed to catch the
one at nine o'clock--her fly still waited in the courtyard--and they
made rapid arrangements. Halcyone, accompanied by Priscilla, was to meet
her the next day at the Upminster junction at eleven o'clock, and they
would journey to London together.
And all the while Halcyone was agreeing to this she was thinking, if in
the improbable circumstance that she should get no letter in the
morning, it would be wiser to go to London. There was her Cheiron, who
would help her to get news. But of course she would hear, and all would
be well.
Thus she was enabled to unfreeze a little to her stepfather's wife, who,
as they said good-by at the creaking fly's door, felt some of her soft
charm.
"Perhaps she is shy," she said to herself as she rolled towards the
station. "Anyway, it is restful, after Mabel's laying down the law."
That night Halcyone took her goddess to the little summer house upon the
second terrace.
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