Anne stopped short in rapture and Diana exclaimed , `` Oh , I know where we are now . That is the little stone house where Miss Lavendar Lewis lives ... Echo Lodge , she calls it , I think . I 've often heard of it but I 've never seen it before . Is n't it a romantic spot ? '' `` It 's the sweetest , prettiest place I ever saw or imagined , '' said Anne delightedly . `` It looks like a bit out of a story book or a dream . '' The house was a low-eaved structure built of undressed blocks of red Island sandstone , with a little peaked roof out of which peered two dormer windows , with quaint wooden hoods over them , and two great chimneys . The whole house was covered with a luxuriant growth of ivy , finding easy foothold on the rough stonework and turned by autumn frosts to most beautiful bronze and wine-red tints . Before the house was an oblong garden into which the lane gate where the girls were standing opened . The house bounded it on one side ; on the three others it was enclosed by an old stone dyke , so overgrown with moss and grass and ferns that it looked like a high , green bank . On the right and left the tall , dark spruces spread their palm-like branches over it ; but below it was a little meadow , green with clover aftermath , sloping down to the blue loop of the Grafton River . No other house or clearing was in sight ... nothing but hills and valleys covered with feathery young firs . `` I wonder what sort of a person Miss Lewis is , '' speculated Diana as they opened the gate into the garden . `` They say she is very peculiar . '' `` She 'll be interesting then , '' said Anne decidedly . `` Peculiar people are always that at least , whatever else they are or are not . Did n't I tell you we would come to an enchanted palace ? I knew the elves had n't woven magic over that lane for nothing . '' `` But Miss Lavendar Lewis is hardly a spellbound princess , '' laughed Diana . `` She 's an old maid ... she 's forty-five and quite gray , I 've heard . ''
`` Oh , that 's only part XXXXX the spell , '' asserted Anne confidently .
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