Oh , I do wish I could go and walk in it . Well , I do declare ! If there is n't a lady in it , too ! '' Sure enough , there was a lady , helping an unruly young vine to run in the way it should go over a little arbour . Charlotte instantly named her the Tall Lady with the Black Eyes . She was not nearly so young or so pretty as the Lady with the Blue Eyes , but she looked very kind and jolly . I 'd like her for an aunt , reflected Charlotte . Not for a mother -- oh , no , not for a mother , but for an aunt . I know she 'd make a splendid aunt . And , oh , just look at her cat ! Charlotte looked at the cat with all her might and main . She loved cats , but cats were not allowed in an orphan asylum , although Charlotte sometimes wondered if there were no orphan kittens in the world which would be appropriate for such an institution . The Tall Lady 's cat was so big and furry , with a splendid tail and elegant stripes . A Very Handsome Cat , Charlotte called him mentally , seeing the capitals as plainly as if they had been printed out . Charlotte 's fingers tingled to stroke his glossy coat , but she folded them sternly together . `` You know you ca n't , '' she said to herself reproachfully , `` so what is the use of wanting to , Charlotte Turner ? You ought to be thankful just to see the garden and the Very Handsome Cat . '' Charlotte watched the Tall Lady and the Cat until they went away into a fine , big house further up the garden , then she sighed and went back through the cherry trees to the asylum playground , where the other orphans were playing games . But , somehow , games had lost their flavour compared with those fascinating gaps . It did not take Charlotte long to discover that the Pretty Lady always walked past the northwest gap about one o'clock every day and never at any other time -- at least at no other time when Charlotte was free to watch her ; and that the Tall Lady was almost always in her garden at five in the afternoon , accompanied by the Very Handsome Cat , pruning and trimming some of her flowers .
Charlotte never missed being at the gaps at the proper times , XXXXX she could possibly manage it , and her heart was full of dreams about her two Ladies .
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