`` I have not , '' he made stern answer . `` I do n't know whom you mean by Elizabeth 's child . That young woman and I have taken a liking for each other which we mean to cultivate on our own account . Do n't call her Elizabeth 's child to me again . '' As the days and weeks went by Worth grew dearer and dearer to the Grange folk . The aunts often wondered to themselves how they had existed before Worth came and , oftener yet , how they could do without her when the time came for her to go home . Meanwhile , the odd friendship between her and Uncle Paul deepened and grew . They read and drove and walked together . Worth spent half her time at Greenwood . Once Uncle Paul said to her , as if speaking half to himself , `` To think that James Sheldon could have a daughter like you ! '' Up went Worth 's head . Worth 's grey eyes flashed . `` I thought we were not to speak of my parents ? '' she said . `` You ought not to have been the first to break the compact , Uncle Paul . '' `` I accept the rebuke and beg your pardon , '' he said . He liked her all the better for those little flashes of spirit across her girlish composure . One day in September they were together in the garden at Greenwood . Worth , looking lovingly and regretfully down the sun-flecked avenue of box , said with a sigh , `` Next month I must go home . How sorry I shall be to leave the Grange and Greenwood .
I have had such a delightful summer , and I have learned XXXXX love all the old nooks and corners as well as if I had lived here all my life . ''
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