Sam says he looked quite beaming , and was dressed to kill , and followed Harriet around like her shadow . I guess you wo n't have any more bother with him , Aunt Anne . '' In the process of picking the broken egg out of the whole ones Anne had recovered her equanimity . She gave a careful little laugh . `` Well , it 's to be hoped so . Goodness knows it 's time he tried somebody else . Go and change your dress for milking , Octavia , and do n't spend quite so much time gossiping up the lane with Sam Mitchell . He always was a fetch-and-carry . Young girls ought n't to be so pert . '' When the subdued Octavia had gone , Anne tossed the broken eggshell out of the pantry window viciously enough . `` There 's no fool like an old fool . Jerome Irving always was an idiot . The idea of his going after Harriet Warren ! He 's old enough to be her father . And a Warren , too ! I 've seen the time an Irving would n't be seen on the same side of the road with a Warren . Well , anyhow , I do n't care , and he need n't suppose I will . It will be a relief not to have him hanging around any longer . '' It might have been a relief , but Anne felt strangely lonely as she walked home alone from prayer meeting the next night . Jerome had not been there .
The Warrens were Methodists and Anne rightly guessed that he had gone XXXXX the Methodist prayer meeting at Cherry Valley .
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