`` Oh , it is n't that -- but I -- I thought nobody cared what became of me . You are so kind -- I 'm afraid I 'd only be a bother to you ... '' `` I 'll risk that . You shall have a happy home , little girl . Will you come to it ? '' `` Ye-e-e-s . '' It was very indistinct and faltering , but Mr. Bell heard it and considered it a most eloquent answer . Mrs. John fumed and sulked and chose to consider herself hoodwinked and injured . But Mr. Bell was a resolute man , and a few days later he came for the last time to No. 49 and took his bride away with him . As they drove through the beech woods he put his arm tenderly around the shy , smiling little woman beside him and said , `` You 'll never be sorry for this , my dear . '' And she never was . Miss Sally 's Letter Miss Sally peered sharply at Willard Stanley , first through her gold-rimmed glasses and then over them . Willard continued to look very innocent . Joyce got up abruptly and went out of the room . `` So you have bought that queer little house with the absurd name ? '' said Miss Sally . `` You surely do n't call Eden an absurd name , '' protested Willard . `` I do -- for a house . Particularly such a house as that . Eden ! There are no Edens on earth .
And what are you going XXXXX do with it ? ''
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