Well , her only daughter has recently married and gone to the foreign mission field . Aunt Jamesina is left alone in a great big house , and she is horribly lonesome . She will come to Kingsport and keep house for us if we want her , and I know you 'll both love her . The more I think of the plan the more I like it . We could have such good , independent times . `` Now , if you and Priscilla agree to it , would n't it be a good idea for you , who are on the spot , to look around and see if you can find a suitable house this spring ? That would be better than leaving it till the fall . If you could get a furnished one so much the better , but if not , we can scare up a few sticks of finiture between us and old family friends with attics . Anyhow , decide as soon as you can and write me , so that Aunt Jamesina will know what plans to make for next year . '' `` I think it 's a good idea , '' said Priscilla . `` So do I , '' agreed Anne delightedly . `` Of course , we have a nice boardinghouse here , but , when all 's said and done , a boardinghouse is n't home . So let 's go house-hunting at once , before exams come on . '' `` I 'm afraid it will be hard enough to get a really suitable house , '' warned Priscilla . `` Do n't expect too much , Anne . Nice houses in nice localities will probably be away beyond our means . We 'll likely have to content ourselves with a shabby little place on some street whereon live people whom to know is to be unknown , and make life inside compensate for the outside . '' Accordingly they went house-hunting , but to find just what they wanted proved even harder than Priscilla had feared . Houses there were galore , furnished and unfurnished ; but one was too big , another too small ; this one too expensive , that one too far from Redmond . Exams were on and over ; the last week of the term came and still their `` house o'dreams , '' as Anne called it , remained a castle in the air .
`` We shall have to give up and wait till the fall , I suppose , '' said Priscilla wearily , as they rambled through the park XXXXX one of April 's darling days of breeze and blue , when the harbor was creaming and shimmering beneath the pearl-hued mists floating over it .
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