CHAPTER XI . A DREADFUL DISCOVERY `` Well , you kids have gone and done it now , '' was Mary 's greeting , as she joined them in the Valley . Miss Cornelia was up at Ingleside , holding agonized conclave with Anne and Susan , and Mary hoped that the session might be a long one , for it was all of two weeks since she had been allowed to revel with her chums in the dear valley of rainbows . `` Done what ? '' demanded everybody but Walter , who was day-dreaming as usual . `` It 's you manse young ones , I mean , '' said Mary . `` It was just awful of you . I would n't have done such a thing for the world , and I were n't brought up in a manse -- were n't brought up ANYWHERE -- just COME up . '' `` What have WE done ? '' asked Faith blankly . `` Done ! You 'd BETTER ask ! The talk is something terrible . I expect it 's ruined your father in this congregation . He 'll never be able to live it down , poor man ! Everybody blames him for it , and that is n't fair . But nothing IS fair in this world . You ought to be ashamed of yourselves . '' `` What HAVE we done ? '' asked Una again , despairingly .
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