I 've been kind of opposed to this concert scheme , but I suppose there 's no real harm in it after all . Anyhow , I was proud of Anne tonight , although I 'm not going to tell her so . '' `` Well now , I was proud of her and I did tell her so ` fore she went upstairs , '' said Matthew . `` We must see what we can do for her some of these days , Marilla . I guess she 'll need something more than Avonlea school by and by . '' `` There 's time enough to think of that , '' said Marilla . `` She 's only thirteen in March . Though tonight it struck me she was growing quite a big girl . Mrs. Lynde made that dress a mite too long , and it makes Anne look so tall . She 's quick to learn and I guess the best thing we can do for her will be to send her to Queen 's after a spell . But nothing need be said about that for a year or two yet . '' `` Well now , it 'll do no harm to be thinking it over off and on , '' said Matthew . `` Things like that are all the better for lots of thinking over . '' Missy 's Room Mrs. Falconer and Miss Bailey walked home together through the fine blue summer afternoon from the Ladies ' Aid meeting at Mrs. Robinson 's . They were talking earnestly ; that is to say , Miss Bailey was talking earnestly and volubly , and Mrs. Falconer was listening . Mrs. Falconer had reduced the practice of listening to a fine art . She was a thin , wistful-faced mite of a woman , with sad brown eyes , and with snow-white hair that was a libel on her fifty-five years and girlish step . Nobody in Lindsay ever felt very well acquainted with Mrs. Falconer , in spite of the fact that she had lived among them forty years . She kept between her and her world a fine , baffling reserve which no one had ever been able to penetrate . It was known that she had had a bitter sorrow in her life , but she never made any reference to it , and most people in Lindsay had forgotten it .
Some foolish ones even supposed XXXXX Mrs. Falconer had forgotten it .
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