You must let me choose for you ; you know you never had any judgment . Mother told you so often enough . Now , get your sunbonnet and take a walk to the shore . You look tired . I 'll get the tea . '' Louisa 's tone was kind though firm . She Was really good to Mary Isabel as long as Mary Isabel gave her her own way peaceably . But if she had known Mary Isabel 's secret she would never have permitted those walks to the shore . Mary Isabel sighed again , yielded , and went out . Across a green field from the Irving cottage Dr. Donald Hamilton 's big house was hooding itself in the shadows of the thick fir grove that enabled the doctor to have a garden . There was no shelter at the cottage , so the Irving `` girls '' never tried to have a garden . Soon after Dr. Hamilton had come there to live he had sent a bouquet of early daffodils over by his housekeeper . Louisa had taken them gingerly in her extreme fingertips , carried them across the field to the lawn fence , and cast them over it , under the amused grey eyes of portly Dr. Hamilton , who was looking out of his office window . Then Louisa had come back to the porch door and ostentatiously washed her hands . `` I guess that will settle Donald Hamilton , '' she told the secretly sorry Mary Isabel triumphantly , and it did settle him -- at least as far as any farther social advances were concerned . Dr. Hamilton was an excellent physician and an equally excellent man . Louisa Irving could not have picked a flaw in his history or character . Indeed , against Dr. Hamilton himself she had no grudge , but he was the brother of a man she hated and whose relatives were consequently taboo in Louisa 's eyes . Not that the brother was a bad man either ; he had simply taken the opposite side to the Irvings in a notable church feud of a dozen years ago , and Louisa had never since held any intercourse with him or his fellow sinners . Mary Isabel did not look at the Hamilton house .
She kept her head resolutely turned away as she went down the shore lane XXXXX its wild sweet loneliness of salt-withered grasses and piping sea-winds .
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