They 're not lazy , you know , but they love to take their time . '' `` And Ludovic is just an aggravated case of Speedism , '' suggested Anne . `` Exactly . He never hurried in his life . Why , he has been thinking for the last six years of getting his house painted . He talks it over with me every little while , and picks out the colour , and there the matter stays . He 's fond of me , and he means to ask me to have him sometime . The only question is -- will the time ever come ? '' `` Why do n't you hurry him up ? '' asked Anne impatiently . Theodora went back to her stitches with another laugh . `` If Ludovic could be hurried up , I 'm not the one to do it . I 'm too shy . It sounds ridiculous to hear a woman of my age and inches say that , but it is true . Of course , I know it 's the only way any Speed ever did make out to get married . For instance , there 's a cousin of mine married to Ludovic 's brother . I do n't say she proposed to him out and out , but , mind you , Anne , it was n't far from it . I could n't do anything like that . I DID try once . When I realized that I was getting sere and mellow , and all the girls of my generation were going off on either hand , I tried to give Ludovic a hint .
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