`` Kenneth Ford has gone back to Toronto . He came up two evenings ago to say good-bye . I was n't home -- some clothes had to be made for the baby and Mrs. Meredith offered to help me , so I was over at the manse , and I did n't see Kenneth . Not that it matters ; he told Nan to say good-bye to Spider for him and tell me not to forget him wholly in my absorbing maternal duties . If he could leave such a frivolous , insulting message as that for me it shows plainly that our beautiful hour on the sandshore meant nothing to him and I am not going to think about him or it again . `` Fred Arnold was at the manse and walked home with me . He is the new Methodist minister 's son and very nice and clever , and would be quite handsome if it were not for his nose . It is a really dreadful nose . When he talks of commonplace things it does not matter so much , but when he talks of poetry and ideals the contrast between his nose and his conversation is too much for me and I want to shriek with laughter . It is really not fair , because everything he said was perfectly charming and if somebody like Kenneth had said it I would have been enraptured . When I listened to him with my eyes cast down I was quite fascinated ; but as soon as I looked up and saw his nose the spell was broken . He wants to enlist , too , but ca n't because he is only seventeen . Mrs. Elliott met us as we were walking through the village and could not have looked more horrified if she caught me walking with the Kaiser himself . Mrs. Elliott detests the Methodists and all their works . Father says it is an obsession with her . '' About 1st September there was an exodus from Ingleside and the manse . Faith , Nan , Di and Walter left for Redmond ; Carl betook himself to his Harbour Head school and Shirley was off to Queen 's . Rilla was left alone at Ingleside and would have been very lonely if she had had time to be . She missed Walter keenly ; since their talk in Rainbow Valley they had grown very near together and Rilla discussed problems with Walter which she never mentioned to others . But she was so busy with the Junior Reds and her baby that there was rarely a spare minute for loneliness ; sometimes , after she went to bed , she cried a little in her pillow over Walter 's absence and Jem at Valcartier and Kenneth 's unromantic farewell message , but she was generally asleep before the tears got fairly started .
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