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Janet
began
to
cry
drearily
.
But
Anne
brewed
her
a
hot
drink
of
ginger
tea
to
her
comforting
.
To
be
sure
,
Anne
discovered
later
on
that
she
had
used
white
pepper
instead
of
ginger
;
but
Janet
never
knew
the
difference
.
The
evening
after
the
funeral
Janet
and
Anne
were
sitting
on
the
front
porch
steps
at
sunset
.
The
wind
had
fallen
asleep
in
the
pinelands
and
lurid
sheets
of
heat-lightning
flickered
across
the
northern
skies
.
Janet
wore
her
ugly
black
dress
and
looked
her
very
worst
,
her
eyes
and
nose
red
from
crying
.
They
talked
little
,
for
Janet
seemed
faintly
to
resent
Anne
's
efforts
to
cheer
her
up
.
She
plainly
preferred
to
be
miserable
.
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Suddenly
the
gate-latch
clicked
and
John
Douglas
strode
into
the
garden
.
He
walked
towards
them
straight
over
the
geranium
bed
.
Janet
stood
up
.
So
did
Anne
.
Anne
was
a
tall
girl
and
wore
a
white
dress
;
but
John
Douglas
did
not
see
her
.
"
Janet
,
"
he
said
,
"
will
you
marry
me
?
"
The
words
burst
out
as
if
they
had
been
wanting
to
be
said
for
twenty
years
and
MUST
be
uttered
now
,
before
anything
else
.
Janet
's
face
was
so
red
from
crying
that
it
could
n't
turn
any
redder
,
so
it
turned
a
most
unbecoming
purple
.
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"
Why
did
n't
you
ask
me
before
?
"
she
said
slowly
.
"
I
could
n't
.
She
made
me
promise
not
to
--
mother
made
me
promise
not
to
.
Nineteen
years
ago
she
took
a
terrible
spell
.
We
thought
she
could
n't
live
through
it
.
She
implored
me
to
promise
not
to
ask
you
to
marry
me
while
she
was
alive
.
I
did
n't
want
to
promise
such
a
thing
,
even
though
we
all
thought
she
could
n't
live
very
long
--
the
doctor
only
gave
her
six
months
.
But
she
begged
it
on
her
knees
,
sick
and
suffering
.
I
had
to
promise
.
"
"
What
had
your
mother
against
me
?
"
cried
Janet
.