Not a bit of it ! I 'd have done the same thing over again , and all I felt sorry for was that I had n't done it long ago . When I got home that night Nancy looked at me wonderingly , and said : `` You look like a girl to-night , Miss Charlotte . '' `` I feel like one , '' I said laughing ; and I ran to my room and did what I had never done before -- wrote a second poem in the same day . I had to have some outlet for my feelings . I called it `` In Summer Days of Long Ago , '' and I worked Mary Gillespie 's roses and Cecil Fenwick 's eyes into it , and made it so sad and reminiscent and minor-musicky that I felt perfectly happy . For the next two months all went well and merrily . Nobody ever said anything more to me about Cecil Fenwick , but the girls all chattered freely to me of their little love affairs , and I became a sort of general confidant for them . It just warmed up the cockles of my heart , and I began to enjoy the Sewing Circle famously . I got a lot of pretty new dresses and the dearest hat , and I went everywhere I was asked and had a good time . But there is one thing you can be perfectly sure of . If you do wrong you are going to be punished for it sometime , somehow and somewhere . My punishment was delayed for two months , and then it descended on my head and I was crushed to the very dust . Another new family besides the Mercers had come to Avonlea in the spring -- the Maxwells . There were just Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell ; they were a middle-aged couple and very well off . Mr. Maxwell had bought the lumber mills , and they lived up at the old Spencer place which had always been `` the '' place of Avonlea . They lived quietly , and Mrs. Maxwell hardly ever went anywhere because she was delicate . She was out when I called and I was out when she returned my call , so that I had never met her . It was the Sewing Circle day again -- at Sarah Gardiner 's this time . I was late ; everybody else was there when I arrived , and the minute I entered the room I knew something had happened , although I could n't imagine what .
Everybody looked XXXXX me in the strangest way .
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