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` The train 's gone , ' he said . ` We are more than half an hour late . ' `` And so it proved . A whole hour and a half had we to sit shivering , in spite of the big fire , in the Fexel waiting-room , and it was eleven at night before , in the slowest of slow trains , we at last found ourselves within a few miles of East Hornham . `` Our spirits had gone down considerably since the morning . We were very tired , and that has _ very _ much more to do with people 's spirits than almost any one realises . '' ` It would n't matter if we were going to friends , ' said Mary .