And she detested Ethel Reese and Ethel Reese hated her -- always had hated her since Walter had pummelled Dan so notoriously in Rainbow Valley days ; but why need she be thought beneath Kenneth Ford 's notice because she was a country girl , pray ? As for Mary Vance , she was getting to be an out-and-out gossip and thought of nothing but who walked home with people ! There was a little pier on the harbour shore below the House of Dreams , and two boats were moored there . One boat was skippered by Jem Blythe , the other by Joe Milgrave , who knew all about boats and was nothing loth to let Miranda Pryor see it . They raced down the harbour and Joe 's boat won . More boats were coming down from the Harbour Head and across the harbour from the western side . Everywhere there was laughter . The big white tower on Four Winds Point was overflowing with light , while its revolving beacon flashed overhead . A family from Charlottetown , relatives of the light 's keeper , were summering at the light , and they were giving the party to which all the young people of Four Winds and Glen St. Mary and over-harbour had been invited . As Jem 's boat swung in below the lighthouse Rilla desperately snatched off her shoes and donned her silver slippers behind Miss Oliver 's screening back . A glance had told her that the rock-cut steps climbing up to the light were lined with boys , and lighted by Chinese lanterns , and she was determined she would not walk up those steps in the heavy shoes her mother had insisted on her wearing for the road . The slippers pinched abominably , but nobody would have suspected it as Rilla tripped smilingly up the steps , her soft dark eyes glowing and questioning , her colour deepening richly on her round , creamy cheeks . The very minute she reached the top of the steps an over-harbour boy asked her to dance and the next moment they were in the pavilion that had been built seaward of the lighthouse for dances . It was a delightful spot , roofed over with fir-boughs and hung with lanterns . Beyond was the sea in a radiance that glowed and shimmered , to the left the moonlit crests and hollows of the sand-dunes , to the right the rocky shore with its inky shadows and its crystalline coves . Rilla and her partner swung in among the dancers ; she drew a long breath of delight ; what witching music Ned Burr of the Upper Glen was coaxing from his fiddle -- it was really like the magical pipes of the old tale which compelled all who heard them to dance . How cool and fresh the gulf breeze blew ; how white and wonderful the moonlight was over everything ! This was life -- enchanting life . Rilla felt as if her feet and her soul both had wings . CHAPTER IV THE PIPER PIPES Rilla 's first party was a triumph -- or so it seemed at first .
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