`` I 'm on my way to see Leslie and ask her if she 'll take a boarder , '' Miss Cornelia resumed . `` I 'd a letter yesterday from a Mrs. Daly in Toronto , who boarded a spell with me two years ago . She wanted me to take a friend of hers for the summer . His name is Owen Ford , and he 's a newspaper man , and it seems he 's a grandson of the schoolmaster who built this house . John Selwyn 's oldest daughter married an Ontario man named Ford , and this is her son . He wants to see the old place his grandparents lived in . He had a bad spell of typhoid in the spring and has n't got rightly over it , so his doctor has ordered him to the sea . He does n't want to go to the hotel -- he just wants a quiet home place . I ca n't take him , for I have to be away in August . I 've been appointed a delegate to the W.F.M.S. convention in Kingsport and I 'm going . I do n't know whether Leslie 'll want to be bothered with him , either , but there 's no one else . If she ca n't take him he 'll have to go over the harbor . '' `` When you 've seen her come back and help us eat our cherry pies , '' said Anne . `` Bring Leslie and Dick , too , if they can come . And so you 're going to Kingsport ? What a nice time you will have . I must give you a letter to a friend of mine there -- Mrs. Jonas Blake . '' `` I 've prevailed on Mrs. Thomas Holt to go with me , '' said Miss Cornelia complacently . `` It 's time she had a little holiday , believe ME . She has just about worked herself to death .
Tom XXXXX can crochet beautifully , but he ca n't make a living for his family .
Anne Blake Cornelia Dick Ford Holt Kingsport Leslie Selwyn Toronto