“And suddenly,” Anne recalled, “I could see that Lady Fermoy was pushing Frances like mad. ‘Do you like tennis, Johnnie? Oh, Frances adores tennis, don’t you, Frances? Do you like swimming? Oh, Frances just adores swimming, don’t you, Frances?’ and Frances just stood there and simpered. Afterwards Johnnie said to me ‘what a simply marvelous girl Frances is!’ and I thought no more about it. But the next time I saw him he said, ‘The most beautiful pair of stockings arrived for me knitted by Frances at school!’ You can guess whose idea that was!” Soon Anne started to perceive coolness in her
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