In the meantime, I shall be praying for your success – and missing you. Roberta.” She put a cold supper ready for him on the kitchen table and covered it with a linen cloth. It was an agony to think that this was the last time she could do anything for him. Then she told herself the sooner she took the first step into the unknown the better. With a protesting and reluctant Danny beside her, she set off towards the station. Roberta knew in which direction it lay because sometimes when they were on the beach they could hear the hoot of the trains in the distance. Yet it proved to be a longer walk than she had expected. Once again she was finding her grip very heavy and Danny was complaining that his legs were aching before finally she saw the station ahead of them. It was very small

