`` And Miss Lavendar is certainly different , though it 's hard to say just where the difference comes in . Perhaps it is because she is one of those people who never grow old . '' `` One might as well grow old when all your generation do , '' said Marilla , rather reckless of her pronouns . `` If you do n't , you do n't fit in anywhere . Far as I can learn Lavendar Lewis has just dropped out of everything . She 's lived in that out of the way place until everybody has forgotten her . That stone house is one of the oldest on the Island . Old Mr. Lewis built it eighty years ago when he came out from England . Davy , stop joggling Dora 's elbow . Oh , I saw you ! You need n't try to look innocent . What does make you behave so this morning ? '' `` Maybe I got out of the wrong side of the bed , '' suggested Davy . `` Milty Boulter says if you do that things are bound to go wrong with you all day . His grandmother told him . But which is the right side ? And what are you to do when your bed 's against the wall ? I want to know . '' `` I 've always wondered what went wrong between Stephen Irving and Lavendar Lewis , '' continued Marilla , ignoring Davy . `` They were certainly engaged twenty-five years ago and then all at once it was broken off .
I do n't know what the trouble was but it must have been something terrible , for he went away XXXXX the States and never come home since . ''
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