He fell in love with her at first sight ; and they put him in the spare room bed to sleep and the sheets were scented with lavendar and he lay awake all night and thought of her . He always loved the scent of lavendar after that ... and that was why he gave me the name . Do n't forget to come back soon , girls dear . We 'll be looking for you , Charlotta the Fourth and I. '' She opened the gate under the firs for them to pass through . She looked suddenly old and tired ; the glow and radiance had faded from her face ; her parting smile was as sweet with ineradicable youth as ever , but when the girls looked back from the first curve in the lane they saw her sitting on the old stone bench under the silver poplar in the middle of the garden with her head leaning wearily on her hand . `` She does look lonely , '' said Diana softly . `` We must come often to see her . '' `` I think her parents gave her the only right and fitting name that could possibly be given her , '' said Anne . `` If they had been so blind as to name her Elizabeth or Nellie or Muriel she must have been called Lavendar just the same , I think . It 's so suggestive of sweetness and old-fashioned graces and ` silk attire . ' Now , my name just smacks of bread and butter , patchwork and chores . '' `` Oh , I do n't think so , '' said Diana . `` Anne seems to me real stately and like a queen . But I 'd like Kerrenhappuch if it happened to be your name . I think people make their names nice or ugly just by what they are themselves . I ca n't bear Josie or Gertie for names now but before I knew the Pye girls I thought them real pretty . '' `` That 's a lovely idea , Diana , '' said Anne enthusiastically . `` Living so that you beautify your name , even if it was n't beautiful to begin with ... making it stand in people 's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself . Thank you , Diana . '' XXII Odds and Ends `` So you had tea at the stone house with Lavendar Lewis ? ''
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