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"Georgie" thing. Presses the flowers I give her—don't you know, and looks at 'em every day."

"Oh, then Anne knows all about it?"

"Oh, yes, she's known from the beginning. I've always told her things all my life, she's so sympathetic. You find yourself telling her things before you know where you are, and she'll listen for hours without getting bored. She's been frightfully interested in Violet ever since I can remember."

"Violet? Georgie, you don't mean to say that you told Anne about Violet?"

"Yes, I did. From the beginning. She's a plain little thing, but chock full of sympathy and goodness. I never knew a kinder heart than Anne's."

"I wonder," said I slowly, "that she hasn't told Drusilla the truth. One would think her only sister—"

"Anne never breaks a promise," cried he hastily. "But she's awfully sorry for her sister, of course. Even before that—that dance she told me how Drusilla cried 16