She did not look cast down or worried . On the contrary , there was a certain air of nervous exultation about her . `` Where is Leslie ? '' she asked -- not as if it mattered much either . `` Owen and she went raspberrying in the woods back of her farm , '' answered Anne . `` They wo n't be back before supper time -- if then . '' `` They do n't seem to have any idea that there is such a thing as a clock , '' said Gilbert . `` I ca n't get to the bottom of that affair . I 'm certain you women pulled strings . But Anne , undutiful wife , wo n't tell me . Will you , Miss Cornelia ? '' `` No , I shall not . But , '' said Miss Cornelia , with the air of one determined to take the plunge and have it over , `` I will tell you something else . I came today on purpose to tell it . I am going to be married . '' Anne and Gilbert were silent . If Miss Cornelia had announced her intention of going out to the channel and drowning herself the thing might have been believable . This was not . So they waited . Of course Miss Cornelia had made a mistake .
`` Well , you both look sort XXXXX kerflummexed , '' said Miss Cornelia , with a twinkle in her eyes .
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