`` But I 'll put on a scarf when we go on the water . '' `` I knew of a boat load of young folks who went sailing on that harbour forty years ago just such a night as this -- just exactly such a night as this , '' said Cousin Sophia lugubriously , `` and they were upset and drowned -- every last one of them . I hope nothing like that 'll happen to you tonight . Do you ever try anything for the freckles ? I used to find plantain juice real good . '' `` You certainly should be a judge of freckles , Cousin Sophia , '' said Susan , rushing to Rilla 's defence . `` You were more speckled than any toad when you was a girl . Rilla 's only come in summer but yours stayed put , season in and season out ; and you had not a ground colour like hers behind them neither . You look real nice , Rilla , and that way of fixing your hair is becoming . But you are not going to walk to the harbour in those slippers , are you ? '' `` Oh , no . We 'll all wear our old shoes to the harbour and carry our slippers . Do you like my dress , Susan ? '' `` It minds me of a dress I wore when I was a girl , '' sighed Cousin Sophia before Susan could reply . `` It was green with pink posies on it , too , and it was flounced from the waist to the hem . We did n't wear the skimpy things girls wear nowadays . Ah me , times has changed and not for the better I 'm afraid . I tore a big hole in it that night and someone spilled a cup of tea all over it . Ruined it completely . But I hope nothing will happen to your dress .
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