`` I 'll be pleased to help you all I can , '' she said graciously . Miss Sally could speak very graciously when she chose , even to men . You would not have thought she hated them , but she did . In all sincerity , too . Also , she had brought her niece up to hate and distrust them . Or , she had tried to do so . But at times Miss Sally was troubled with an uncomfortable suspicion that Joyce did not hate and distrust men quite as thoroughly as she ought . The suspicion had recurred several times this summer since Willard Stanley had come to take charge of the biological station at the harbour . Miss Sally did not distrust Willard on his own account . She merely distrusted him on principle and on Joyce 's account . Nevertheless , she was rather nice to him . Miss Sally , dear , trim , dainty Miss Sally , with her snow-white curls and her big girlish black eyes , could n't help being nice , even to a man . Willard had come a great deal to Miss Sally 's . If it were Joyce he were after Miss Sally blocked his schemes with much enjoyment . He never saw Joyce alone -- that Miss Sally knew of , at least -- and he did not make much apparent headway . But now all danger was removed , Miss Sally thought . He was going to be married to somebody else , and Joyce was safe . `` Thank you , '' said Willard . `` I 'll come up tomorrow afternoon , and you and I will take a prowl about Eden and see what must be done . I 'm ever so much obliged , Miss Sally . ''
`` I wonder who he is going to marry , '' said Miss XXXXX , careless of grammar , after he had gone .
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