It orter to be a bit longer I 'm thinking -- your legs are so terrible long and thin . '' `` Mrs. Dr. Blythe does not approve of little girls dressing like grown-up ones , '' said Susan stiffly , intending merely a snub to Cousin Sophia . But Rilla felt insulted . A little girl indeed ! She whisked out of the kitchen in high dudgeon . Another time she would n't go down to show herself off to Susan -- Susan , who thought nobody was grown up until she was sixty ! And that horrid Cousin Sophia with her digs about freckles and legs ! What business had an old -- an old beanpole like that to talk of anybody else being long and thin ? Rilla felt all her pleasure in herself and her evening clouded and spoiled . The very teeth of her soul were set on edge and she could have sat down and cried . But later on her spirits rose again when she found herself one of the gay crowd bound for the Four Winds light . The Blythes left Ingleside to the melancholy music of howls from Dog Monday , who was locked up in the barn lest he make an uninvited guest at the light . They picked up the Merediths in the village , and others joined them as they walked down the old harbour road . Mary Vance , resplendent in blue crepe , with lace overdress , came out of Miss Cornelia 's gate and attached herself to Rilla and Miss Oliver who were walking together and who did not welcome her over-warmly . Rilla was not very fond of Mary Vance . She had never forgotten the humiliating day when Mary had chased her through the village with a dried codfish . Mary Vance , to tell the truth , was not exactly popular with any of her set . Still , they enjoyed her society -- she had such a biting tongue that it was stimulating . `` Mary Vance is a habit of ours -- we ca n't do without her even when we are furious with her , '' Di Blythe had once said . Most of the little crowd were paired off after a fashion .
Jem walked XXXXX Faith Meredith , of course , and Jerry Meredith with Nan Blythe .
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