`` She 's been a terrible sufferer , '' said Janet feelingly . `` She takes terrible spells . It keeps John all worried up . He 's scared to leave home for fear his mother will take a spell and nobody there but the hired girl . '' Chapter XXXIII `` He Just Kept Coming and Coming '' Three days later Anne came home from school and found Janet crying . Tears and Janet seemed so incongruous that Anne was honestly alarmed . `` Oh , what is the matter ? '' she cried anxiously . `` I 'm -- I 'm forty today , '' sobbed Janet . `` Well , you were nearly that yesterday and it did n't hurt , '' comforted Anne , trying not to smile . `` But -- but , '' went on Janet with a big gulp , `` John Douglas wo n't ask me to marry him . '' `` Oh , but he will , '' said Anne lamely . `` You must give him time , Janet `` Time ! '' said Janet with indescribable scorn . `` He has had twenty years . How much time does he want ? '' `` Do you mean that John Douglas has been coming to see you for twenty years ? '' `` He has . And he has never so much as mentioned marriage to me . And I do n't believe he ever will now .
I 've never said a word XXXXX a mortal about it , but it seems to me I 've just got to talk it out with some one at last or go crazy .
Anne Douglas Janet XXXIII for from that to with years