`` I 'd poor fellow him , believe ME , if I was Kate Sterns . I do n't know how he could help getting the mumps , but I DO know the wedding supper was all prepared and everything will be spoiled before he 's well again . Such a waste ! He should have had the mumps when he was a boy . '' `` Come , come , Cornelia , do n't you think you 're a mite unreasonable ? '' Miss Cornelia disdained to reply and turned instead to Susan Baker , a grim-faced , kind-hearted elderly spinster of the Glen , who had been installed as maid-of-all-work at the little house for some weeks . Susan had been up to the Glen to make a sick call , and had just returned . `` How is poor old Aunt Mandy tonight ? '' asked Miss Cornelia . Susan sighed . `` Very poorly -- very poorly , Cornelia . I am afraid she will soon be in heaven , poor thing ! '' `` Oh , surely , it 's not so bad as that ! '' exclaimed Miss Cornelia , sympathetically . Captain Jim and Gilbert looked at each other . Then they suddenly rose and went out . `` There are times , '' said Captain Jim , between spasms , `` when it would be a sin NOT to laugh . Them two excellent women ! '' CHAPTER 19 DAWN AND DUSK In early June , when the sand hills were a great glory of pink wild roses , and the Glen was smothered in apple blossoms , Marilla arrived at the little house , accompanied by a black horsehair trunk , patterned with brass nails , which had reposed undisturbed in the Green Gables garret for half a century . Susan Baker , who , during her few weeks ' sojourn in the little house , had come to worship `` young Mrs. Doctor , '' as she called Anne , with blind fervor , looked rather jealously askance at Marilla at first .
But as Marilla did not try to interfere in kitchen matters , and showed no desire to interrupt Susan 's ministrations to young Mrs. XXXXX , the good handmaiden became reconciled to her presence , and told her cronies at the Glen that Miss Cuthbert was a fine old lady and knew her place .
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