She looked like a messenger from pixy land . I suppose she could have told us the road , but I was curious to see Miss Lavendar . S ... s ... sh , she 's coming . '' And with that Miss Lavendar Lewis was standing in the doorway . The girls were so surprised that they forgot good manners and simply stared . They had unconsciously been expecting to see the usual type of elderly spinster as known to their experience ... a rather angular personage , with prim gray hair and spectacles . Nothing more unlike Miss Lavendar could possibly be imagined . She was a little lady with snow-white hair beautifully wavy and thick , and carefully arranged in becoming puffs and coils . Beneath it was an almost girlish face , pink cheeked and sweet lipped , with big soft brown eyes and dimples ... actually dimples . She wore a very dainty gown of cream muslin with pale-hued roses on it ... a gown which would have seemed ridiculously juvenile on most women of her age , but which suited Miss Lavendar so perfectly that you never thought about it at all . `` Charlotta the Fourth says that you wished to see me , '' she said , in a voice that matched her appearance . `` We wanted to ask the right road to West Grafton , '' said Diana . `` We are invited to tea at Mr. Kimball 's , but we took the wrong path coming through the woods and came out to the base line instead of the West Grafton road . Do we take the right or left turning at your gate ? '' `` The left , '' said Miss Lavendar , with a hesitating glance at her tea table . Then she exclaimed , as if in a sudden little burst of resolution , `` But oh , wo n't you stay and have tea with me ? Please , do . Mr. Kimball 's will have tea over before you get there . And Charlotta the Fourth and I will be so glad to have you . '' Diana looked mute inquiry at Anne .
`` We 'd like to stay , '' said Anne promptly , for she had made up her mind that she wanted to know more XXXXX this surprising Miss Lavendar , `` if it wo n't inconvenience you .
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