Though tonight it struck me she was growing quite a big girl . Mrs. Lynde made that dress a mite too long , and it makes Anne look so tall . She 's quick to learn and I guess the best thing we can do for her will be to send her to Queen 's after a spell . But nothing need be said about that for a year or two yet . '' `` Well now , it 'll do no harm to be thinking it over off and on , '' said Matthew . `` Things like that are all the better for lots of thinking over . '' Missy 's Room Mrs. Falconer and Miss Bailey walked home together through the fine blue summer afternoon from the Ladies ' Aid meeting at Mrs. Robinson 's . They were talking earnestly ; that is to say , Miss Bailey was talking earnestly and volubly , and Mrs. Falconer was listening . Mrs. Falconer had reduced the practice of listening to a fine art . She was a thin , wistful-faced mite of a woman , with sad brown eyes , and with snow-white hair that was a libel on her fifty-five years and girlish step . Nobody in Lindsay ever felt very well acquainted with Mrs. Falconer , in spite of the fact that she had lived among them forty years . She kept between her and her world a fine , baffling reserve which no one had ever been able to penetrate . It was known that she had had a bitter sorrow in her life , but she never made any reference to it , and most people in Lindsay had forgotten it . Some foolish ones even supposed that Mrs. Falconer had forgotten it . `` Well , I do not know what on earth is to be done with Camilla Clark , '' said Miss Bailey , with a prodigious sigh . `` I suppose that we will simply have to trust the whole matter to Providence . '' Miss Bailey 's tone and sigh really seemed to intimate to the world at large that Providence was a last resort and a very dubious one . Not that Miss Bailey meant anything of the sort ; her faith was as substantial as her works , which were many and praiseworthy and seasonable . The case of Camilla Clark was agitating the Ladies ' Aid of one of the Lindsay churches . They had talked about it through the whole of that afternoon session while they sewed for their missionary box -- talked about it , and come to no conclusion .
In the preceding spring James Clark , one of the hands XXXXX the lumber mill at Lindsay , had been killed in an accident .
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