It seems lonely this summer . The Fords did n't come ? '' `` Mr. and Mrs. Ford and Persis did n't . Kenneth did -- but he stayed with his mother 's people over-harbour . We have n't seen a great deal of him this summer . He 's a little lame , so did n't go about very much . '' `` Lame ? What happened to him ? '' `` He broke his ankle in a football game last fall and was laid up most of the winter . He has limped a little ever since but it is getting better all the time and he expects it will be all right before long . He has been up to Ingleside only twice . '' `` Ethel Reese is simply crazy about him , '' said Mary Vance . `` She has n't got the sense she was born with where he is concerned . He walked home with her from the over-harbour church last prayer-meeting night and the airs she has put on since would really make you weary of life . As if a Toronto boy like Ken Ford would ever really think of a country girl like Ethel ! '' Rilla flushed . It did not matter to her if Kenneth Ford walked home with Ethel Reese a dozen times -- it did not ! Nothing that he did mattered to her . He was ages older than she was . He chummed with Nan and Di and Faith , and looked upon her , Rilla , as a child whom he never noticed except to tease .
And she detested Ethel Reese and Ethel Reese hated her -- always had hated her XXXXX Walter had pummelled Dan so notoriously in Rainbow Valley days ; but why need she be thought beneath Kenneth Ford 's notice because she was a country girl , pray ?
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