"Oh, I can manage. I am getting very brave and very hard. It is a well-lighted road all the way home, if it should be dark. But I was out last week much later."
Margaret was thankful when the parting was over--the parting from the dead mother and the living father. She hurried Frederick into the cab, in order to shorten a scene which she saw was so bitterly painful to her father, who would accompany his son as he took his last look at his mother. Partly in consequence of this, and partly owing to one of the very common mistakes in the "Railway Guide" as to the times when trains arrive at the smaller stations, they found, on reaching Outwood, that they had nearly twenty minutes to spare. The booking-office was not open, so they could not even take the ticket. They accordingly went down the flight of steps that led to the level of the ground below the railway. There was a broad cinder-path diagonally crossing a field which lay alongside of the carriage-road, and they went there to walk backwards and forwards for the few minutes they had to spare.

'But it is a well-lit road all the way home,' said Margaret. 'I was out last week much later.'
Margaret was thankful when Frederick's parting with his father was over. She hurried Frederick into the cab, in order to shorten a scene which she saw was bitterly painful to her father. In consequence they found, on reaching Outwood, that they had nearly twenty minutes to spare. The booking-office was not open, so they could not even buy the ticket. So they went down the flight of steps below the railway, where there was a path crossing a field alongside the road, and walked backwards and forwards for a few minutes.
