`` YOU know , Anne-girl , '' said Gilbert , smiling into her eyes . At that moment there were certainly two perfectly happy people sitting on the doorstep of a little white house on the Four Winds Harbor shore . Presently Gilbert said , with a change of tone , `` Do I or do I not see a full-rigged ship sailing up our lane ? '' Anne looked and sprang up . `` That must be either Miss Cornelia Bryant or Mrs. Moore coming to call , '' she said . `` I 'm going into the office , and if it is Miss Cornelia I warn you that I 'll eavesdrop , '' said Gilbert . `` From all I 've heard regarding Miss Cornelia I conclude that her conversation will not be dull , to say the least . '' `` It may be Mrs. Moore . '' `` I do n't think Mrs. Moore is built on those lines . I saw her working in her garden the other day , and , though I was too far away to see clearly , I thought she was rather slender . She does n't seem very socially inclined when she has never called on you yet , although she 's your nearest neighbor . '' `` She ca n't be like Mrs. Lynde , after all , or curiosity would have brought her , '' said Anne . `` This caller is , I think , Miss Cornelia . '' Miss Cornelia it was ; moreover , Miss Cornelia had not come to make any brief and fashionable wedding call . She had her work under her arm in a substantial parcel , and when Anne asked her to stay she promptly took off her capacious sun-hat , which had been held on her head , despite irreverent September breezes , by a tight elastic band under her hard little knob of fair hair . No hat pins for Miss Cornelia , an it please ye ! Elastic bands had been good enough for her mother and they were good enough for HER . She had a fresh , round , pink-and-white face , and jolly brown eyes . She did not look in the least like the traditional old maid , and there was something in her expression which won Anne instantly . With her old instinctive quickness to discern kindred spirits she knew she was going to like Miss Cornelia , in spite of uncertain oddities of opinion , and certain oddities of attire .
Nobody but Miss XXXXX would have come to make a call arrayed in a striped blue-and-white apron and a wrapper of chocolate print , with a design of huge , pink roses scattered over it .
Anne Bryant Cornelia Gilbert Harbor Lynde Moore garden house sun-hat