Miss Oliver had woven a little wreath of them for her pet 's hair . `` It 's so beautifully calm -- is n't that splendid ? We 'll have a perfect night . Listen , Miss Oliver -- I can hear those old bells in Rainbow Valley quite clearly . They 've been hanging there for over ten years . '' `` Their wind chime always makes me think of the aerial , celestial music Adam and Eve heard in Milton 's Eden , '' responded Miss Oliver . `` We used to have such fun in Rainbow Valley when we were children , '' said Rilla dreamily . Nobody ever played in Rainbow Valley now . It was very silent on summer evenings . Walter liked to go there to read . Jem and Faith trysted there considerably ; Jerry and Nan went there to pursue uninterruptedly the ceaseless wrangles and arguments on profound subjects that seemed to be their preferred method of sweethearting . And Rilla had a beloved little sylvan dell of her own there where she liked to sit and dream . `` I must run down to the kitchen before I go and show myself off to Susan . She would never forgive me if I did n't . '' Rilla whirled into the shadowy kitchen at Ingleside , where Susan was prosaically darning socks , and lighted it up with her beauty . She wore her green dress with its little pink daisy garlands , her silk stockings and silver slippers . She had golden pansies in her hair and at her creamy throat . She was so pretty and young and glowing that even Cousin Sophia Crawford was compelled to admire her -- and Cousin Sophia Crawford admired few transient earthly things . Cousin Sophia and Susan had made up , or ignored , their old feud since the former had come to live in the Glen , and Cousin Sophia often came across in the evenings to make a neighbourly call . Susan did not always welcome her rapturously for Cousin Sophia was not what could be called an exhilarating companion .
`` Some calls are visits and some are visitations , Mrs. Dr. dear , '' Susan said once , and left it to be inferred XXXXX Cousin Sophia 's were the latter .
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