Why , I 'm perfectly well . I never felt better in my life . Of course , that congestion last winter pulled me down a little . But just see my color . I do n't look much like an invalid , I 'm sure . '' Ruby 's voice was almost sharp . She pulled her arm away from Anne , as if in resentment , and ran downstairs , where she was gayer than ever , apparently so much absorbed in bantering her two swains that Diana and Anne felt rather out of it and soon went away . Chapter XII `` Averil 's Atonement '' `` What are you dreaming of , Anne ? '' The two girls were loitering one evening in a fairy hollow of the brook . Ferns nodded in it , and little grasses were green , and wild pears hung finely-scented , white curtains around it . Anne roused herself from her reverie with a happy sigh . `` I was thinking out my story , Diana . '' `` Oh , have you really begun it ? '' cried Diana , all alight with eager interest in a moment . `` Yes , I have only a few pages written , but I have it all pretty well thought out . I 've had such a time to get a suitable plot . None of the plots that suggested themselves suited a girl named AVERIL . '' `` Could n't you have changed her name ? '' `` No , the thing was impossible . I tried to , but I could n't do it , any more than I could change yours .
AVERIL was so real to me that no matter what other name I tried XXXXX give her I just thought of her as AVERIL behind it all .
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