lady, or you will have to go to the Pollits."

She looked up at him quickly; she was surprised that he remembered her
daughter's married name, but it had slipped off his tongue quite easily.

"Never will I do that!" she exclaimed.

"Then you had better arrange to stop here. There are plenty of people in
Witanbury who would be only too glad to have such an excellent help as
you are, Frau Bauer."

"I shall not be compelled to look out for a new situation," she said
quickly. "My young lady would never allow that--neither would Mrs.
Otway!"

But even so, poor Anna felt disturbed--disturbed and terribly
disheartened. The money she had saved was her own money! She could not
understand by what right the British Government could prevent her taking
it with her. It was this money alone that would ensure a welcome from
the Warshauers. Willi and Minna could not be expected to want her unless
she brought with her enough, not only to feed herself, but to give them
a little help in these hard times. But soon she began to feel more
cheerful. Mrs. Otway and the Dean would surely obtain permission for her
to take her money back to Germany. It was a great deal of money--over
three hundred pounds altogether.

* * * * *

Within an hour of her return to the Trellis House Anna heard the fly
which had been ordered to meet Mrs. Otway at the station drive into the
Close. For the first time, the very first time in over eighteen years,
Anna did not long to welcome her two ladies home. Indeed, her heart now
felt so hurt and sore that when she heard the familiar rumble she would
have liked to run away and hide herself, instead of going to the front
door.

And yet, when the two came through into the hall, Rose with something of
her old happy look back again, and Mrs. Otway's face radiant as Anna had
never seen it during all the peaceful years they two had dwelt so near
to one another, the poor old woman's heart softened. "Welcome!" she
said, in German. "Welcome, my dear mistress, and all happiness be
yours!"

And then, after Rose had hurried off to Robey's, Mrs. Otway, while
taking off her things, and watching Anna unpack her bag, told of Major
Guthrie's home-coming.

In simple words she described the little group of people--of mothers, of
wives, of sweethearts and of friends--who had waited at the London Docks
for that precious argosy, the ship from Holland, to come in. And Anna
furtively wiped away her t