And then , when the train goes and he realizes that Jem has not come , he creeps dejectedly back to his shed , with his disappointed eyes , and lies down patiently to wait for the next train . Mr. Gray , the station master , says there are times when he can hardly help crying from sheer sympathy . One day some boys threw stones at Monday and old Johnny Mead , who never was known to take notice of anything before , snatched up a meat axe in the butcher 's shop and chased them through the village . Nobody has molested Monday since . `` Kenneth Ford has gone back to Toronto . He came up two evenings ago to say good-bye . I was n't home -- some clothes had to be made for the baby and Mrs. Meredith offered to help me , so I was over at the manse , and I did n't see Kenneth . Not that it matters ; he told Nan to say good-bye to Spider for him and tell me not to forget him wholly in my absorbing maternal duties . If he could leave such a frivolous , insulting message as that for me it shows plainly that our beautiful hour on the sandshore meant nothing to him and I am not going to think about him or it again . `` Fred Arnold was at the manse and walked home with me . He is the new Methodist minister 's son and very nice and clever , and would be quite handsome if it were not for his nose . It is a really dreadful nose . When he talks of commonplace things it does not matter so much , but when he talks of poetry and ideals the contrast between his nose and his conversation is too much for me and I want to shriek with laughter . It is really not fair , because everything he said was perfectly charming and if somebody like Kenneth had said it I would have been enraptured . When I listened to him with my eyes cast down I was quite fascinated ; but as soon as I looked up and saw his nose the spell was broken . He wants to enlist , too , but ca n't because he is only seventeen . Mrs. Elliott met us as we were walking through the village and could not have looked more horrified if she caught me walking with the Kaiser himself . Mrs. Elliott detests the Methodists and all their works . Father says it is an obsession with her . '' About 1st September there was an exodus from Ingleside and the manse .
Faith , XXXXX , Di and Walter left for Redmond ; Carl betook himself to his Harbour Head school and Shirley was off to Queen 's .
Arnold Elliott Father Jem Kenneth Methodist Nan Toronto ago sandshore