`` He broke his ankle in a football game last fall and was laid up most of the winter . He has limped a little ever since but it is getting better all the time and he expects it will be all right before long . He has been up to Ingleside only twice . '' `` Ethel Reese is simply crazy about him , '' said Mary Vance . `` She has n't got the sense she was born with where he is concerned . He walked home with her from the over-harbour church last prayer-meeting night and the airs she has put on since would really make you weary of life . As if a Toronto boy like Ken Ford would ever really think of a country girl like Ethel ! '' Rilla flushed . It did not matter to her if Kenneth Ford walked home with Ethel Reese a dozen times -- it did not ! Nothing that he did mattered to her . He was ages older than she was . He chummed with Nan and Di and Faith , and looked upon her , Rilla , as a child whom he never noticed except to tease . And she detested Ethel Reese and Ethel Reese hated her -- always had hated her since Walter had pummelled Dan so notoriously in Rainbow Valley days ; but why need she be thought beneath Kenneth Ford 's notice because she was a country girl , pray ? As for Mary Vance , she was getting to be an out-and-out gossip and thought of nothing but who walked home with people ! There was a little pier on the harbour shore below the House of Dreams , and two boats were moored there . One boat was skippered by Jem Blythe , the other by Joe Milgrave , who knew all about boats and was nothing loth to let Miranda Pryor see it . They raced down the harbour and Joe 's boat won . More boats were coming down from the Harbour Head and across the harbour from the western side . Everywhere there was laughter . The big white tower on Four Winds Point was overflowing with light , while its revolving beacon flashed overhead .
A family from Charlottetown , relatives of the light 's keeper , were summering at the light , and they were giving the party to which all the young people XXXXX Four Winds and Glen St. Mary and over-harbour had been invited .
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