What would Mrs. Elliott say to that if she knew ? '' `` Oh , I 'm not going to quarrel with you , '' said Mary , suddenly retreating to high and lofty ground . `` All I say is , you should wait until you 're grown-up before you do things like that . '' Rilla gave up trying to hide the fact that she was crying . Everything was spoiled -- even that beautiful , dreamy , romantic , moonlit hour with Kenneth on the sands was vulgarized and cheapened . She loathed Mary Vance . `` Why , whatever 's wrong ? '' cried mystified Mary . `` What are you crying for ? '' `` My feet -- hurt so -- '' sobbed Rilla clinging to the last shred of her pride . It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because -- because somebody had been amusing himself with you , and your friends had forgotten you , and other people patronized you . `` I daresay they do , '' said Mary , not unkindly . `` Never mind . I know where there 's a pot of goose-grease in Cornelia 's tidy pantry and it beats all the fancy cold creams in the world . I 'll put some on your heels before you go to bed . '' Goose-grease on your heels ! So this was what your first party and your first beau and your first moonlit romance ended in ! Rilla gave over crying in sheer disgust at the futility of tears and went to sleep in Mary Vance 's bed in the calm of despair . Outside , the dawn came greyly in on wings of storm ; Captain Josiah , true to his word , ran up the Union Jack at the Four Winds Light and it streamed on the fierce wind against the clouded sky like a gallant unquenchable beacon . CHAPTER V `` THE SOUND OF A GOING '' Rilla ran down through the sunlit glory of the maple grove behind Ingleside , to her favourite nook in Rainbow Valley .
She sat down XXXXX a green-mossed stone among the fern , propped her chin on her hands and stared unseeingly at the dazzling blue sky of the August afternoon -- so blue , so peaceful , so unchanged , just as it had arched over the valley in the mellow days of late summer ever since she could remember .
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