`` Nobody . I knew that must be it , just from the way you spoke . '' `` He wants to come and see you , '' said Anne . `` May I send him word that he may ? '' `` Yes , of course , '' fluttered Miss Lavendar . `` There is no reason why he should n't . He is only coming as any old friend might . '' Anne had her own opinion about that as she hastened into the house to write a note at Miss Lavendar 's desk . `` Oh , it 's delightful to be living in a storybook , '' she thought gaily . `` It will come out all right of course ... it must ... and Paul will have a mother after his own heart and everybody will be happy . But Mr. Irving will take Miss Lavendar away ... and dear knows what will happen to the little stone house ... and so there are two sides to it , as there seems to be to everything in this world . '' The important note was written and Anne herself carried it to the Grafton post office , where she waylaid the mail carrier and asked him to leave it at the Avonlea office . `` It 's so very important , '' Anne assured him anxiously . The mail carrier was a rather grumpy old personage who did not at all look the part of a messenger of Cupid ; and Anne was none too certain that his memory was to be trusted . But he said he would do his best to remember and she had to be contented with that . Charlotta the Fourth felt that some mystery pervaded the stone house that afternoon ... a mystery from which she was excluded . Miss Lavendar roamed about the garden in a distracted fashion . Anne , too , seemed possessed by a demon of unrest , and walked to and fro and went up and down . Charlotta the Fourth endured it till patience ceased to be a virtue ; then she confronted Anne on the occasion of that romantic young person 's third aimless peregrination through the kitchen . `` Please , Miss Shirley , ma'am , '' said Charlotta the Fourth , with an indignant toss of her very blue bows , `` it 's plain to be seen you and Miss Lavendar have got a secret and I think , begging your pardon if I 'm too forward , Miss Shirley , ma'am , that it 's real mean not to tell me when we 've all been such chums . ''
`` Oh , Charlotta dear , I 'd have told you all XXXXX it if it were my secret ... but it 's Miss Lavendar 's , you see .
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