So when she came home from Redmond College that summer I asked Diana to take pity on me and bring her over some afternoon . I was n't disappointed in her . I considered her a beauty , though some people could n't see it . She had the most magnificent red hair and the biggest , shiningest eyes I ever saw in a girl 's head . As for her laugh , it made me feel young again to hear it . She and Diana both laughed enough that afternoon , for I told them , under solemn promise of secrecy , all about poor Prissy 's love affair . So nothing would do them but they must go over with me . The appearance of the house amazed me . All the shutters were closed and the door locked . I knocked and knocked , but there was no answer . Then I walked around the house to the only window that had n't shutters -- a tiny one upstairs . I knew it was the window in the closet off the room where the girls slept . I stopped under it and called Prissy . Before long Prissy came and opened it . She was so pale and woe-begone looking that I pitied her with all my heart . `` Prissy , where has Emmeline gone ? '' I asked . `` Down to Avonlea to see the Roger Pyes . They 're sick with measles , and Emmeline could n't take me because I 've never had measles . '' Poor Prissy !
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