And by the time they were in good order, the farms and villages they were flying past had grown nearer together. The platforms at the depots were full of people who wore a less provincial air, the houses grew larger and so did the towns; they found themselves flashing past advertisements of all sorts of things, and especially of things connected with the Fair.
"You know how we used to play hunt the thimble?" said Robin; "and how when anyone came near the place where it was hidden, we said 'Warm—warmer—warmer still—hot!' It's like that now. We have been getting warmer and warmer every minute, and now we are getting"—
"We shall be in in a minute," said a big man at the end of the car, and he stood up and began to take down his things.
"Hot!" said Robin, with an excited little laugh. "Meg, we're not going—going—going any more. Look out of the window!"
"We are steaming into the big depôt," cried Meg. "How big it is! What crowds of people! Robin, we are there!"
Robin bent down to pick up their satchel, the people all rose in their seats and began to move in a mass down the aisle towards the door. Everybody seemed suddenly to become eager and in a hurry, as if they
