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 to give her I just thought of her as AVERIL behind it all . But finally I got a plot that matched her . Then came the excitement of choosing names for all my characters . You have no idea how fascinating that is . I 've lain awake for hours thinking over those names . The hero 's name is PERCEVAL DALRYMPLE . '' `` Have you named ALL the characters ? '' asked Diana wistfully . `` If you had n't I was going to ask you to let me name one -- just some unimportant person . I 'd feel as if I had a share in the story then . '' `` You may name the little hired boy who lived with the LESTERS , '' conceded Anne . `` He is not very important , but he is the only one left unnamed . '' `` Call him RAYMOND FITZOSBORNE , '' suggested Diana , who had a store of such names laid away in her memory , relics of the old `` Story Club , '' which she and Anne and Jane Andrews and Ruby Gillis had had in their schooldays . Anne shook her head doubtfully . `` I 'm afraid that is too aristocratic a name for a chore boy , Diana . I could n't imagine a Fitzosborne feeding pigs and picking up chips , could you ? ''
Diana did n't see why , if you had an imagination at all , you could n't stretch it XXXXX that extent ; but probably Anne knew best , and the chore boy was finally christened ROBERT RAY , to be called BOBBY should occasion require .
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