But she did say it , and , moreover , I caught Mary Gillespie and Adella Gilbert exchanging significant smiles . That settled it , and made me quite reckless . `` In for a penny , in for a pound , '' thought I , and I said with a pensive smile : `` Nobody here knew anything about him , and it was all long , long ago . '' `` What was his name ? '' asked Wilhelmina . `` Cecil Fenwick , '' I answered promptly . Cecil had always been my favorite name for a man ; it figured quite frequently in the blank book . As for the Fenwick part of it , I had a bit of newspaper in my hand , measuring a hem , with `` Try Fenwick 's Porous Plasters '' printed across it , and I simply joined the two in sudden and irrevocable matrimony . `` Where did you meet him ? '' asked Georgie . I hastily reviewed my past . There was only one place to locate Cecil Fenwick . The only time I had ever been far enough away from Avonlea in my life was when I was eighteen and had gone to visit an aunt in New Brunswick . `` In Blakely , New Brunswick , '' I said , almost believing that I had when I saw how they all took it in unsuspectingly . `` I was just eighteen and he was twenty-three . '' `` What did he look like ? '' Susette wanted to know . `` Oh , he was very handsome . '' I proceeded glibly to sketch my ideal . To tell the dreadful truth , I was enjoying myself ; I could see respect dawning in those girls ' eyes , and I knew that I had forever thrown off my reproach .
Henceforth I should be a woman with a romantic past , faithful XXXXX the one love of her life -- a very , very different thing from an old maid who had never had a lover .
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