`` You just take it easy , Mrs. Doctor , dear , '' said Susan , coming abruptly in . `` Have a good time and do not worry about the pantry . Susan is at the helm . There is no use in keeping a dog and doing your own barking . I am going to take your breakfast up to you every morning . '' `` Indeed you are not , '' laughed Anne . `` I agree with Miss Cornelia that it 's a scandal for a woman who is n't sick to eat her breakfast in bed , and almost justifies the men in any enormities . '' `` Oh , Cornelia ! '' said Susan , with ineffable contempt . `` I think you have better sense , Mrs. Doctor , dear , than to heed what Cornelia Bryant says . I can not see why she must be always running down the men , even if she is an old maid . I am an old maid , but you never hear ME abusing the men . I like 'em . I would have married one if I could . Is it not funny nobody ever asked me to marry him , Mrs. Doctor , dear ? I am no beauty , but I am as good-looking as most of the married women you see . But I never had a beau . What do you suppose is the reason ? '' `` It may be predestination , '' suggested Anne , with unearthly solemnity . Susan nodded .
`` That is what I have often thought , Mrs. XXXXX , dear , and a great comfort it is .
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