`` I do hope I wo n't get any spots on this dress to-night , '' she reflected . `` It will have to do me for a gala dress for a year at least -- and I have a creepy conviction that it is fearfully spottable . Bless Uncle Mark 's good , uncalculating heart ! How I would have detested it if he had given me something sensible and useful and ugly -- as Aunt Emilia would have done . '' They all went to `` young '' John Penhallow 's at early moonrise . Lucinda drove over the two miles of hill and dale with a youthful second cousin , by name , Carey Penhallow . The wedding was quite a brilliant affair . Lucinda seemed to pervade the social atmosphere , and everywhere she went a little ripple of admiration trailed after her like a wave . She was undeniably a belle , yet she found herself feeling faintly bored and was rather glad than otherwise when the guests began to fray off . `` I 'm afraid I 'm losing my capacity for enjoyment , '' she thought , a little drearily . `` Yes , I must be growing old . That is what it means when social functions begin to bore you . '' It was that unlucky Mrs. George who blundered again . She was standing on the veranda when Carey Penhallow dashed up . `` Tell Lucinda that I ca n't take her back to the Grange . I have to drive Mark and Cissy Penhallow to Bright River to catch the two o'clock express . There will be plenty of chances for her with the others . '' At this moment George Penhallow , holding his rearing horse with difficulty , shouted for his wife . Mrs. George , all in a flurry , dashed back into the still crowded hall . Exactly to whom she gave her message was never known to any of the Penhallows .
But a tall , ruddy-haired girl , dressed in pale green organdy -- Anne Shirley from Avonlea -- told Marilla Cuthbert and Rachel Lynde as a joke the next morning how a chubby little woman in a bright pink fascinator had clutched her by the arm , and gasped out : `` Carey Penhallow ca n't take you -- he says you 're to look out XXXXX someone else , '' and was gone before she could answer or turn around .
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