What a relief it will be for you if he has . '' `` Oh , of course , '' I said , frostily . `` Anne Shirley or Anne Anybody Else , is perfectly welcome to Max if she wants him . I certainly do not . Ismay Meade , if that stove does n't stop smoking I shall fly into bits . This is a detestable day . I hate that creature ! '' `` Oh , you should n't talk like that , when you do n't even know her , '' protested Ismay . `` Every one says Anne Shirley is lovely -- '' `` I was talking about Fatima , '' I cried in a rage . `` Oh ! '' said Ismay . Ismay is stupid at times . I thought the way she said `` Oh '' was inexcusably stupid . Fatima arrived the next day . Max brought her out in a covered basket , lined with padded crimson satin . Max likes cats and Aunt Cynthia . He explained how we were to treat Fatima and when Ismay had gone out of the room -- Ismay always went out of the room when she knew I particularly wanted her to remain -- he proposed to me again . Of course I said no , as usual , but I was rather pleased . Max had been proposing to me about every two months for two years . Sometimes , as in this case , he went three months , and then I always wondered why .
I concluded XXXXX he could not be really interested in Anne Shirley , and I was relieved .
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