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She's only got three relations she ever visits and she says she just goes to see them as a faoing to visit for family duty no more 'I've come home in love with loneliness, Charlotta,' she says totree again My relations try so hard to make an old lady of me and it has a bad effect on me' Just like that, Miss Shirley, ma'am 'It has a very bad effect on o visiting"

"We must see what can be done," said Anne decidedly, as she put the last possible berry in her pink cup "Just as soon as I have h and spend a whole ith you We'll have a picnic every day and pretend all sorts of interesting things, and see if we can't cheer Miss Lavendar up"

"That will be the very thing, Miss Shirley, lad for Miss Lavendar's sake and for her own too With a whole week in which to study Anne constantly she would surely be able to learn how to ot back to Echo Lodge they found that Miss Lavendar and Paul had carried the little square table out of the kitchen to the garden and had everything ready for tea Nothing ever tasted so delicious as those strawberries and creareat blue sky all curdled over with fluffy little white clouds, and in the long shadows of the ith its lispings and its s After tea Anne helped Charlotta wash the dishes in the kitchen, while Miss Lavendar sat on the stone bench with Paul and heard all about his rock people She was a good listener, this sweet Miss Lavendar, but just at the last it struck Paul that she had suddenly lost interest in the Twin Sailors

"Miss Lavendar, why do you look at ravely

"How do I look, Paul?"

"Just as if you were looking through me at somebody I put you in mind of," said Paul, who had such occasional flashes of uncanny insight that it wasn't quite safe to have secrets when he was about

"You do put o," said Miss Lavendar drea Do I seem very old to you, Paul?"