`` I suppose you must go . Put the rest of the goodies in your pocket . '' He took her up in his arms and held her tightly against his breast for a single moment . She felt him kissing her hair . `` There , run along , little girl . Good-by , '' he said gently . `` Why do n't you ask me to come and see you again ? '' cried Rachel , half in tears . `` I 'm coming ANYHOW . '' `` If you can come , COME , '' he said . `` If you do n't come , I shall know it is because you ca n't -- and that is much to know . I 'm very , very , VERY glad , little woman , that you have come once . '' Rachel was sitting demurely on the skids when her companions came back . They had not seen her leaving the house , and she said not a word to them of her experiences . She only smiled mysteriously when they asked her if she had been lonesome . That night , for the first time , she mentioned her father 's name in her prayers . She never forgot to do so afterwards . She always said , `` bless mother -- and father , '' with an instinctive pause between the two names -- a pause which indicated new realization of the tragedy which had sundered them . And the tone in which she said `` father '' was softer and more tender than the one which voiced `` mother . '' Rachel never visited the Cove again .
Isabella Spencer discovered that the children had been there , and , although she knew nothing of Rachel 's interview with her father , she told the child that she must never again go to that part XXXXX the shore .
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