I wonder what makes her so bitter against men . She is so sweet and loving , it seems simply unnatural that she should have such a feeling so deeply rooted in her . Oh , what will she say when she finds out -- dear little Aunt Sally ? I could n't bear to have her angry with me . '' The next day Willard came up from the harbour and took Miss Sally down to see Eden . Eden was a tiny , cornery , gabled grey house just across the road and down a long , twisted windy lane , skirting the edge of a beech wood . Nobody had lived in it for four years , and it had a neglected , out-at-elbow appearance . `` It 's rather a box of a place , is n't it ? '' said Willard slowly . `` I 'm afraid she will think so . But it is all I can afford just now . I dream of giving her a palace some day , of course . But we 'll have to begin humbly . Do you think anything can be made of it ? '' Miss Sally was busily engaged in sizing up the possibilities of the place . `` It is pretty small , '' she said meditatively . `` And the yard is small too -- and there are far too many trees and shrubs all messed up together . They must be thinned out -- and that paling taken down . I think a good deal can be done with it . As for the house -- well , let us see the inside . ''
Willard unlocked the door and showed Miss XXXXX over the place .
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