`` You used to write perfectly thrilling stories years ago in our old Story Club . '' `` Well , I hardly meant one of that kind of stories , '' smiled Anne . `` I 've been thinking about it a little of late , but I 'm almost afraid to try , for , if I should fail , it would be too humiliating . '' `` I heard Priscilla say once that all Mrs. Morgan 's first stories were rejected . But I 'm sure yours would n't be , Anne , for it 's likely editors have more sense nowadays . '' `` Margaret Burton , one of the Junior girls at Redmond , wrote a story last winter and it was published in the Canadian Woman . I really do think I could write one at least as good . '' `` And will you have it published in the Canadian Woman ? '' `` I might try one of the bigger magazines first . It all depends on what kind of a story I write . '' `` What is it to be about ? '' `` I do n't know yet . I want to get hold of a good plot . I believe this is very necessary from an editor 's point of view . The only thing I 've settled on is the heroine 's name . It is to be AVERIL LESTER . Rather pretty , do n't you think ? Do n't mention this to any one , Diana . I have n't told anybody but you and Mr. Harrison . HE was n't very encouraging -- he said there was far too much trash written nowadays as it was , and he 'd expected something better of me , after a year at college . ''
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