`` No , '' she said carelessly . `` Who is Christine Stuart ? '' `` Ronald Stuart 's sister . She 's in Kingsport this winter studying music . I have n't seen her , but they say she 's very pretty and that Gilbert is quite crazy over her . How angry I was when you refused Gilbert , Anne . But Roy Gardner was foreordained for you . I can see that now . You were right , after all . '' Anne did not blush , as she usually did when the girls assumed that her eventual marriage to Roy Gardner was a settled thing . All at once she felt rather dull . Phil 's chatter seemed trivial and the reception a bore . She boxed poor Rusty 's ears . `` Get off that cushion instantly , you cat , you ! Why do n't you stay down where you belong ? '' Anne picked up her orchids and went downstairs , where Aunt Jamesina was presiding over a row of coats hung before the fire to warm . Roy Gardner was waiting for Anne and teasing the Sarah-cat while he waited . The Sarah-cat did not approve of him . She always turned her back on him . But everybody else at Patty 's Place liked him very much .
Aunt Jamesina , carried away by his unfailing and deferential courtesy , and the pleading tones XXXXX his delightful voice , declared he was the nicest young man she ever knew , and that Anne was a very fortunate girl .
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