`` I have called to ask you who the original of the photograph ' A September Dream ' in your exhibit was , Miss Palmer , '' she said graciously . `` The resemblance to a very dear childhood friend of mine is so startling that I am sure it can not be accidental . '' `` That is a photograph of Ada Cameron , a friend whom I met this summer up in Marwood , '' said Pauline . `` Ada Cameron ! She must be Ada Frame 's daughter , then , '' exclaimed Mrs. Knowles in excitement . Then , seeing Pauline 's puzzled face , she explained : `` Years ago , when I was a child , I always spent my summers on the farm of my uncle , John Frame . My cousin , Ada Frame , was the dearest friend I ever had , but after we grew up we saw nothing of each other , for I went with my parents to Europe for several years , and Ada married a neighbour 's son , Alec Cameron , and went out west . Her father , who was my only living relative other than my parents , died , and I never heard anything more of Ada until about eight years ago , when somebody told me she was dead and had left no family . That part of the report can not have been true if this girl is her daughter . '' `` I believe she is , '' said Pauline quickly . `` Ada was born out west and lived there until she was eight years old , when her parents died and she was sent east to her father 's half-sister . And Ada looks like you -- she always reminded me of somebody I had seen , but I never could decide who it was before . Oh , I hope it is true , for Ada is such a sweet girl , Mrs. Knowles . '' `` She could n't be anything else if she is Ada Frame 's daughter , '' said Mrs. Knowles . `` My husband will investigate the matter at once , and if this girl is Ada 's child we shall hope to find a daughter in her , as we have none of our own . '' `` What will Aunt Olivia say ! '' said Pauline with wickedly dancing eyes when Mrs. Knowles had gone . Aunt Olivia was too much overcome to say anything . That good lady felt rather foolish when it was proved that the girl she had so despised was Mrs. Morgan Knowles ' cousin and was going to be adopted by her . But to hear Aunt Olivia talk now , you would suppose that she and not Pauline had discovered Ada .
The latter sought Pauline out XXXXX soon as she came to Colchester , and the summer friendship proved a life-long one and was , for the Wallaces , the open sesame to the enchanted ground of the Knowles ' `` set . ''
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