Would I like to see her welcome me as a friend ? I have a conviction that I would , although no doubt everybody in my congregation would look upon her as a most unsuitable friend for me . Do I believe that she is wild , unwomanly , heathenish , as Mrs. Danby says ? No , I do not , most emphatically . I believe she is a lady in the truest sense of that much abused word , though she is doubtless unconventional . Having said all this , I do not see what more there is to be said . And -- I -- am -- going -- to -- write -- this -- sermon . Alan wrote it , putting all thought of Lynde Oliver sternly out of his mind for the time being . He had no notion of falling in love with her . He knew nothing of love and imagined that it counted for nothing in his life . He admitted that his curiosity was aflame about the girl , but it never occurred to him that she meant or could mean anything to him but an attractive enigma which once solved would lose its attraction . The young women he knew in Rexton , whose simple , pleasant friendship he valued , had the placid , domestic charm of their own sweet-breathed , windless orchards . Lynde Oliver had the fascination of the lake shore -- wild , remote , untamed -- the lure of the wilderness and the primitive . There was nothing more personal in his thought of her , and yet when he recalled Isabel King 's sneer he felt an almost personal resentment . * * * * * During the following fortnight Alan made many trips to the shore -- and he always went by the branch road to the Four Winds point . He did not attempt to conceal from himself that he hoped to meet Lynde Oliver again . In this he was unsuccessful . Sometimes he saw her at a distance along the shore but she always disappeared as soon as seen . Occasionally as he crossed the point he saw her working in her garden but he never went very near the house , feeling that he had no right to spy on it or her in any way . He soon became convinced that she avoided him purposely and the conviction piqued him .
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