Just see me off with a wave of your hands . It wo n't seem half so bad then . And do n't any of you cry if you can help it . I want to remember you all smiling . '' We went out of the old orchard where the autumn night wind was beginning to make its weird music in the russet boughs , and shut the little gate behind us . Our revels there were ended . CHAPTER XXXIII . THE STORY GIRL GOES The morning dawned , rosy and clear and frosty . Everybody was up early , for the travellers must leave in time to catch the nine o'clock train . The horse was harnessed and Uncle Alec was waiting by the door . Aunt Janet was crying , but everybody else was making a valiant effort not to . The Awkward Man and Mrs. Dale came to see the last of their favourite . Mrs. Dale had brought her a glorious sheaf of chrysanthemums , and the Awkward Man gave her , quite gracefully , another little , old , limp book from his library . `` Read it when you are sad or happy or lonely or discouraged or hopeful , '' he said gravely . `` He has really improved very much since he got married , '' whispered Felicity to me . Sara Stanley wore a smart new travelling suit and a blue felt hat with a white feather . She looked so horribly grown up in it that we felt as if she were lost to us already . Sara Ray had vowed tearfully the night before that she would be up in the morning to say farewell . But at this juncture Judy Pineau appeared to say that Sara , with her usual luck , had a sore throat , and that her mother consequently would not permit her to come . So Sara had written her parting words in a three-cornered pink note .
`` My OWN DARLING FRIEND : -- WORDS CAN NOT EXPRESS my feelings over not being able to go up this morning to XXXXX good-bye to one I so FONDLY ADORE .
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