Miss Rosetta arrived safely back in Avonlea with Camilla Jane and within ten hours everybody in the settlement knew the whole story , and every woman who could stand on her feet had been up to the Ellis cottage to see the baby . Mrs. Wheeler arrived home twenty-four hours later , and silently betook herself to her farm . When her Avonlea neighbors sympathized with her in her disappointment , she said nothing , but looked all the more darkly determined . Also , a week later , Mr. William J. Blair , the Carmody storekeeper , had an odd tale to tell . Mrs. Wheeler had come to the store and bought a lot of fine flannel and muslin and valenciennes . Now , what in the name of time , did Mrs. Wheeler want with such stuff ? Mr. William J. Blair could n't make head or tail of it , and it worried him . Mr. Blair was so accustomed to know what everybody bought anything for that such a mystery quite upset him . Miss Rosetta had exulted in the possession of little Camilla Jane for a month , and had been so happy that she had almost given up inveighing against Charlotte . Her conversations , instead of tending always to Jacob Wheeler , now ran Camilla Janeward ; and this , folks thought , was an improvement . One afternoon , Miss Rosetta , leaving Camilla Jane snugly sleeping in her cradle in the kitchen , had slipped down to the bottom of the garden to pick her currants . The house was hidden from her sight by the copse of cherry trees , but she had left the kitchen window open , so that she could hear the baby if it awakened and cried . Miss Rosetta sang happily as she picked her currants . For the first time since Charlotte had married Jacob Wheeler Miss Rosetta felt really happy -- so happy that at there was no room in her heart for bitterness . In fancy she looked forward to the coming years , and saw Camilla Jane growing up into girlhood , fair and lovable . `` She 'll be a beauty , '' reflected Miss Rosetta complacently . `` Jane was a handsome girl . She shall always be dressed as nice as I can manage it , and I 'll get her an organ , and have her take painting and music lessons . Parties , too ! I 'll give her a real coming-out party when she 's eighteen and the very prettiest dress that 's to be had .
Dear me , I can hardly wait XXXXX her to grow up , though she 's sweet enough now to make one wish she could stay a baby forever . ''
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