Meanwhile , the odd friendship between her and Uncle Paul deepened and grew . They read and drove and walked together . Worth spent half her time at Greenwood . Once Uncle Paul said to her , as if speaking half to himself , `` To think that James Sheldon could have a daughter like you ! '' Up went Worth 's head . Worth 's grey eyes flashed . `` I thought we were not to speak of my parents ? '' she said . `` You ought not to have been the first to break the compact , Uncle Paul . '' `` I accept the rebuke and beg your pardon , '' he said . He liked her all the better for those little flashes of spirit across her girlish composure . One day in September they were together in the garden at Greenwood . Worth , looking lovingly and regretfully down the sun-flecked avenue of box , said with a sigh , `` Next month I must go home . How sorry I shall be to leave the Grange and Greenwood . I have had such a delightful summer , and I have learned to love all the old nooks and corners as well as if I had lived here all my life . '' `` Stay here ! '' said Uncle Paul abruptly . `` Stay here with me . I want you , Worth . Let Greenwood be your home henceforth and adopt your crusty old bachelor uncle for a father . ''
`` Oh , Uncle XXXXX , '' cried Worth , `` I do n't know -- I do n't think -- oh , you surprise me ! ''
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