asked Anne , laughing . `` I heard a rumour of it , but I hardly believed it . '' `` Believe it ! You may believe it all right , Anne , dearie . Nobody is in ignorance of it . Norman Douglas never left anybody in doubt as to his intentions in regard to anything . He always did his courting before the public . He told Marshall that he had n't thought about Ellen for years , but the first time he went to church last fall he saw her and fell in love with her all over again . He said he 'd clean forgot how handsome she was . He had n't seen her for twenty years , if you can believe it . Of course he never went to church , and Ellen never went anywhere else round here . Oh , we all know what Norman means , but what Ellen means is a different matter . I sha n't take it upon me to predict whether it will be a match or not . '' `` He jilted her once -- but it seems that does not count with some people , Mrs. Dr. dear , '' Susan remarked rather acidly . `` He jilted her in a fit of temper and repented it all his life , '' said Miss Cornelia . `` That is different from a cold-blooded jilting . For my part , I never detested Norman as some folks do . He could never over-crow ME . I DO wonder what started him coming to church . I have never been able to believe Mrs. Wilsons 's story that Faith Meredith went there and bullied him into it .
I 've always intended XXXXX ask Faith herself , but I 've never happened to think of it just when I saw her .
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