Diana could not understand this . `` MAKE them do as you want them to , '' she said . `` I ca n't , '' mourned Anne . `` Averil is such an unmanageable heroine . She WILL do and say things I never meant her to . Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again . '' Finally , however , the story was finished , and Anne read it to Diana in the seclusion of the porch gable . She had achieved her `` pathetic scene '' without sacrificing ROBERT RAY , and she kept a watchful eye on Diana as she read it . Diana rose to the occasion and cried properly ; but , when the end came , she looked a little disappointed . `` Why did you kill MAURICE LENNOX ? '' she asked reproachfully . `` He was the villain , '' protested Anne . `` He had to be punished . '' `` I like him best of them all , '' said unreasonable Diana . `` Well , he 's dead , and he 'll have to stay dead , '' said Anne , rather resentfully . `` If I had let him live he 'd have gone on persecuting AVERIL and PERCEVAL . '' `` Yes -- unless you had reformed him . '' `` That would n't have been romantic , and , besides , it would have made the story too long . '' `` Well , anyway , it 's a perfectly elegant story , Anne , and will make you famous , of that I 'm sure . Have you got a title for it ? ''
`` Oh , I decided XXXXX the title long ago .
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