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Thus matters stood when Tuesday arrived and the Overdene party broke
up. Jane went to town to spend a couple of days with the Brands.
Garth went straight to Shenstone, where he had been asked expressly
to meet Miss Lister and her aunt, Mrs. Parker Bangs. Jane was due at
Shenstone on Friday for the week-end.


CHAPTER IX
LADY INGLEBY'S HOUSE PARTY

As Jane took her seat and the train moved out of the London terminus
she leaned back in her corner with a sigh of satisfaction. Somehow
these days in town had seemed insufferably long. Jane reviewed them
thoughtfully, and sought the reason. They had been filled with
interests and engagements; and the very fact of being in town, as a
rule, contented her. Why had she felt so restless and dissatisfied
and lonely?
From force of habit she had just stopped at the railway book-stall
for her usual pile of literature. Her friends always said Jane could
not go even the shortest journey without at least half a dozen
papers.


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