`` I own that I have been a little afraid that this Willard Stanley was coming here to see you . But my mind is set at rest on that point now , and I shall help him fix up his doll house with a clear conscience . Eden , indeed ! '' Miss Sally sniffed and tripped out of the room to hunt up a furniture catalogue . Joyce sighed and let her embroidery slip to the floor . `` Oh , I 'm afraid Willard 's plan wo n't succeed , '' she murmured . `` I 'm afraid Aunt Sally will never consent to our marriage . And I ca n't and wo n't marry him unless she does , for she would never forgive me and I could n't bear that . 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 .
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