`` Janet told me I could have the use of the parlor when any young men called ! I do n't think there are many to call . I have n't seen a young man in Valley Road yet , except the next-door hired boy -- Sam Toliver , a very tall , lank , tow-haired youth . He came over one evening recently and sat for an hour on the garden fence , near the front porch where Janet and I were doing fancy-work . The only remarks he volunteered in all that time were , ` Hev a peppermint , miss ! Dew now-fine thing for carARRH , peppermints , ' and , ` Powerful lot o ' jump-grasses round here ternight . Yep . ' `` But there is a love affair going on here . It seems to be my fortune to be mixed up , more or less actively , with elderly love affairs . Mr. and Mrs. Irving always say that I brought about their marriage . Mrs. Stephen Clark of Carmody persists in being most grateful to me for a suggestion which somebody else would probably have made if I had n't . I do really think , though , that Ludovic Speed would never have got any further along than placid courtship if I had not helped him and Theodora Dix out . `` In the present affair I am only a passive spectator . I 've tried once to help things along and made an awful mess of it . So I shall not meddle again . I 'll tell you all about it when we meet . '' Chapter XXXII Tea with Mrs. Douglas On the first Thursday night of Anne 's sojourn in Valley Road Janet asked her to go to prayer-meeting . Janet blossomed out like a rose to attend that prayer-meeting . She wore a pale-blue , pansy-sprinkled muslin dress with more ruffles than one would ever have supposed economical Janet could be guilty of , and a white leghorn hat with pink roses and three ostrich feathers on it . Anne felt quite amazed .
Later XXXXX , she found out Janet 's motive in so arraying herself -- a motive as old as Eden .
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