`` I love this place so . I did hope we could have got it . '' Then did Miss Patty lay down her knitting , take off her specs , rub them , put them on again , and for the first time look at Anne as at a human being . The other lady followed her example so perfectly that she might as well have been a reflection in a mirror . `` You LOVE it , '' said Miss Patty with emphasis . `` Does that mean that you really LOVE it ? Or that you merely like the looks of it ? The girls nowadays indulge in such exaggerated statements that one never can tell what they DO mean . It was n't so in my young days . THEN a girl did not say she LOVED turnips , in just the same tone as she might have said she loved her mother or her Savior . '' Anne 's conscience bore her up . `` I really do love it , '' she said gently . `` I 've loved it ever since I saw it last fall . My two college chums and I want to keep house next year instead of boarding , so we are looking for a little place to rent ; and when I saw that this house was to let I was so happy . '' `` If you love it , you can have it , '' said Miss Patty . `` Maria and I decided today that we would not let it after all , because we did not like any of the people who have wanted it . We do n't HAVE to let it . We can afford to go to Europe even if we do n't let it . It would help us out , but not for gold will I let my home pass into the possession of such people as have come here and looked at it . YOU are different .
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