`` We would miss her horribly . And she has an excellent influence over Rilla who worships her . They are chums , in spite of the difference in their ages . '' `` I thought I heard she was going to be married ? '' `` I believe it was talked of but I understand it is postponed for a year . '' `` Who is the young man ? '' `` Robert Grant . He is a young lawyer in Charlottetown . I hope Gertrude will be happy . She has had a sad life , with much bitterness in it , and she feels things with a terrible keenness . Her first youth is gone and she is practically alone in the world . This new love that has come into her life seems such a wonderful thing to her that I think she hardly dares believe in its permanence . When her marriage had to be put off she was quite in despair -- though it certainly was n't Mr. Grant 's fault . There were complications in the settlement of his father 's estate -- his father died last winter -- and he could not marry till the tangles were unravelled . But I think Gertrude felt it was a bad omen and that her happiness would somehow elude her yet . '' `` It does not do , Mrs. Dr. dear , to set your affections too much on a man , '' remarked Susan solemnly . `` Mr. Grant is quite as much in love with Gertrude as she is with him , Susan . It is not he whom she distrusts -- it is fate . She has a little mystic streak in her -- I suppose some people would call her superstitious . She has an odd belief in dreams and we have not been able to laugh it out of her .
I must own , too , that some of her dreams -- but there , it would not do XXXXX let Gilbert hear me hinting such heresy .
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