After an eternity the big headlight cut through the snow and the muffled whistle shook the windows. Stud hurried out to the platform as the train wheezed in and ground to a stop. Early Ann jumped off, laughing and squealing. He carried her baggage to the cutter and they streaked home through the storm to the accompaniment of jingling sleigh-bells and creaking snow beneath the polished runners. Deeply covered with robes and sharing each other's warmth, they shouted to each other above the storm. It was good to be home again, good to be turning in at the Brailsford gate with the windows of the farmhouse shining on the snow. Stud hurried off to unhitch while Gus helped Early Ann with her bundles. Sarah stood on the back stoop shivering and wiping her hands on her apron. "Welcome home, Early Ann," she cried. "Here I am safe and sound, Mrs. Brailsford. I had a wonderful time." "Did you see the stock yards?" Gus wanted to know. "Or Sears, Roebuck's?" "It'll take a year to tell all I saw," said Early Ann. She went into the warm, lamp-lit kitchen fragrant with the smells of pie and coffee and roasting meat. They had a surprise for Early Ann. Gus had caught a raccoon in one of his traps. They were having a raccoon supper with sweet potatoes and corn bread. "Hope it tastes as good as it smells," said Early Ann. "Here, Mrs. Brailsford, let me help with everything." "Change your dress first, child." Throughout supper she regaled them with the wonders of Chicago: the room she had had six stories above the street with electric lights and a brass bed, and a private bathroom with hot and cold running water. She had lived like a queen. She had slept until eight o'clock every morning, and once she had taken her breakfast in bed. "And you should see the limousines and street cars, and boats on the river! They got bridges that lift up, and buildings five times as tall as the windmill," said Early Ann. "Did you see the Board of Trade?" Stud wanted to know. "No I didn't," the girl admitted, "but I saw a woman smoking a cigarette, and couples doing the tango on a glass dance floor. It was lovely the way they served food, with white napkins and pretty glass and silver." "I'm so glad you went," Sarah said. "It'll be something to think about until the day you die." "Such pretty dresses in the stores," said Early Ann. "I sure do wish you could have been along, Mrs. Brailsford. I bought myself a new corset and.... Oh, I shouldn't." "Don't mind me," said Gus. "There was a big parade for Emmeline Pankhurst who came all the way from London to talk about woman suffrage, and I was as close as across this room from her. She looked like a fighter all right." "She's a criminal," said Gus, "she oughta be hanged." "She's a great leader and a fine woman," said Sarah, quietly. "They'll treat her like a real saint before she dies."