No matter what her outraged feelings were she did not show them . She greeted Priscilla and was introduced to her companions as calmly and composedly as if she had been arrayed in purple and fine linen . To be sure , it was somewhat of a shock to find that the lady she had instinctively felt to be Mrs. Morgan was not Mrs. Morgan at all , but an unknown Mrs. Pendexter , while the stout little gray-haired woman was Mrs. Morgan ; but in the greater shock the lesser lost its power . Anne ushered her guests to the spare room and thence into the parlor , where she left them while she hastened out to help Priscilla unharness her horse . `` It 's dreadful to come upon you so unexpectedly as this , '' apologized Priscilla , `` but I did not know till last night that we were coming . Aunt Charlotte is going away Monday and she had promised to spend today with a friend in town . But last night her friend telephoned to her not to come because they were quarantined for scarlet fever . So I suggested we come here instead , for I knew you were longing to see her . We called at the White Sands Hotel and brought Mrs. Pendexter with us . She is a friend of aunt 's and lives in New York and her husband is a millionaire . We ca n't stay very long , for Mrs. Pendexter has to be back at the hotel by five o'clock . '' Several times while they were putting away the horse Anne caught Priscilla looking at her in a furtive , puzzled way . `` She need n't stare at me so , '' Anne thought a little resentfully . `` If she does n't KNOW what it is to change a feather bed she might IMAGINE it . '' When Priscilla had gone to the parlor , and before Anne could escape upstairs , Diana walked into the kitchen . Anne caught her astonished friend by the arm . `` Diana Barry , who do you suppose is in that parlor at this very moment ? Mrs. Charlotte E. Morgan ... and a New York millionaire 's wife ... and here I am like THIS ... and NOT A THING IN THE HOUSE FOR DINNER BUT A COLD HAM BONE , Diana ! '' By this time Anne had become aware that Diana was staring at her in precisely the same bewildered fashion as Priscilla had done . It was really too much .
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