She was certainly no more than fifty and , in spite of her grey hair , looked almost girlish , so bright were her dark eyes , so clear-cut and fresh her delicate face , and so smart her general appearance . Frances , although not given to sudden likings , took one for Mrs. Kennedy . She thought she had never seen so charming a face . She found herself enjoying the day immensely . In fact , she forgot the Governor 's picnic and Sara Beaumont altogether . Mrs. Kennedy proved to be a delightful companion . She had travelled extensively and was an excellent raconteur . She had seen much of men and women and crystallized her experiences into sparkling little sentences and epigrams which made Frances feel as if she were listening to one of the witty people in clever books . But under all her sparkling wit there was a strongly felt undercurrent of true womanly sympathy and kind-heartedness which won affection as speedily as her brilliance won admiration . Frances listened and laughed and enjoyed . Once she found time to think that she would have missed a great deal if she had not come to Bay Shore Farm that day . Surely talking to a woman like Mrs. Kennedy was better than looking at Sara Beaumont from a distance . `` I 've been ` rewarded ' in the most approved storybook style , '' she thought with amusement . In the afternoon , Grandmother Newbury packed Mrs. Kennedy and Frances off for a walk . `` The old woman wants to have her regular nap , '' she told them . `` Frances , take Mrs. Kennedy to the fern walk and show her the famous ` Newbury Bubble ' among the rocks . I want to be rid of you both until tea-time . '' Frances and Mrs. Kennedy went to the fern walk and the beautiful `` Bubble '' -- a clear , round spring of amber-hued water set down in a cup of rock overhung with ferns and beeches . It was a spot Frances had always loved . She found herself talking freely to Mrs. Kennedy of her hopes and plans .
The older woman drew the girl out with tactful sympathy until she found that Frances 's dearest ambition was some day XXXXX be a writer of books like Sara Beaumont .
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