He meant it as little as you did . Do n't let your foolish pride keep you miserable . '' `` If Walter wo n't come back to me without my asking him he 'll never come , Sara , '' I said stubbornly . Sara did n't scold or coax any more . She patted my head and kissed me and made me bathe my face and go to bed . Then she tucked me in just as she used to do when I was a little girl . `` Now , do n't cry , dear , '' she said , `` it will come right yet . '' Somehow , I began to hope it would when Sara thought so , and anyhow it was such a comfort to have talked it all over with her . I slept better than I had for a long time , and it was seven o'clock yesterday morning when I woke to find that it was a dull grey day outside and that Sara was standing by my bed with her hat and jacket on . `` I 'm going down to Junction Falls on the 7:30 train to see Mr. Conway about coming to fix the back kitchen floor , '' she said , `` and I have some other business that may keep me for some time , so do n't be anxious if I 'm not back till late . Give the bread a good kneading in an hour 's time and be careful not to bake it too much . '' That was a dismal day . It began to rain soon after Sara left and it just poured . I never saw a soul all day except the milkman , and I was really frantic by night . I never was so glad of anything as when I heard Sara 's step on the verandah . I flew to the front door to let her in -- and there was Walter all dripping wet -- and his arms were about me and I was crying on the shoulder of his mackintosh . I only guessed then what I knew later on . Sara had heard from Mrs. Shirley that Walter was going to Marlboro that day without coming back to Atwater . Sara knew that he must change trains at Junction Falls and she went there to meet him . She did n't know what train he would come on so she went to meet the earliest and had to wait till the last , hanging around the dirty little station at the Falls all day while it poured rain , and she had n't a thing to eat except some fancy biscuits she had bought on the train .
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