Friday
at midday
Next morning , with a sense of successful strategy , she returned to Overton by an early train . The rest of the week was for her a period of acute suspense . For Gabrielle and Arthur it was one of delightful anticipation . On Friday at midday Considine drove them to Totnes station , the scene of their last parting , and set them on their journey . They watched him standing serious on the platform as the train went out , and when they lost sight of his tall figure at a curve in the line , it seemed to them as though the last possible shadow had been lifted from them . In the first part of their journey a soft rain hid the shapes of the country through which they passed , so soft that they could keep the windows open , and yet so dense as to give them a feeling of delicious loneliness , for they could see nothing but the grassed embankments starred with primroses . All through the Devon valleys and over the turf moors of Somerset this weather held .