Of course , Wilhelmina Mercer was the first to set her tongue going . `` Oh , Miss Holmes , have you seen him yet ? '' she exclaimed . `` Seen whom ? '' I said non-excitedly , getting out my thimble and patterns . `` Why , Cecil Fenwick . He 's here -- in Avonlea -- visiting his sister , Mrs. Maxwell . '' I suppose I did what they expected me to do . I dropped everything I held , and Josephine Cameron said afterwards that Charlotte Holmes would never be paler when she was in her coffin . If they had just known why I turned so pale ! `` It 's impossible ! '' I said blankly . `` It 's really true , '' said Wilhelmina , delighted at this development , as she supposed it , of my romance . `` I was up to see Mrs. Maxwell last night , and I met him . '' `` It -- ca n't be -- the same -- Cecil Fenwick , '' I said faintly , because I had to say something . `` Oh , yes , it is . He belongs in Blakely , New Brunswick , and he 's a lawyer , and he 's been out West twenty-two years . He 's oh ! so handsome , and just as you described him , except that his hair is quite gray . He has never married -- I asked Mrs. Maxwell -- so you see he has never forgotten you , Miss Holmes .
And , oh , I believe everything is going XXXXX come out all right . ''
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