You have made me so unutterably unhappy for two months . '' `` The pursuit of the Ideal is ended , '' declared Roger . The Softening of Miss Cynthia `` I wonder if I 'd better flavour this cake with lemon or vanilla . It 's the most perplexing thing I ever heard of in my life . '' Miss Cynthia put down the bottles with a vexed frown ; her perplexity had nothing whatever to do with flavouring the golden mixture in her cake bowl . Mrs. John Joe knew that ; the latter had dropped in in a flurry of curiosity concerning the little boy whom she had seen about Miss Cynthia 's place for the last two days . Her daughter Kitty was with her ; they both sat close together on the kitchen sofa . `` It is too bad , '' said Mrs. John Joe sympathetically . `` I do n't wonder you are mixed up . So unexpected , too ! When did he come ? '' `` Tuesday night , '' said Miss Cynthia . She had decided on the vanilla and was whipping it briskly in . `` I saw an express wagon drive into the yard with a boy and a trunk in it and I went out just as he got down . ` Are you my Aunt Cynthia ? ' he said . ` Who in the world are you ? ' I asked . And he says , ` I 'm Wilbur Merrivale , and my father was John Merrivale . He died three weeks ago and he said I was to come to you , because you were his sister . '
Well , you could just have knocked me down XXXXX a feather ! ''
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