`` Sweet William is a dreadful name for a flower , '' said the Story Girl . `` William is a man 's name , and men are NEVER sweet . They are a great many nice things , but they are NOT sweet and should n't be . That is for women . Oh , look at the moonshine on the road in that gap between the spruces ! I 'd like a dress of moonshine , with stars for buttons . '' `` It would n't do , '' said Felicity decidedly . `` You could see through it . '' Which seemed to settle the question of moonshine dresses effectually . CHAPTER XII . THE BLUE CHEST OF RACHEL WARD `` It 's utterly out of the question , '' said Aunt Janet seriously . When Aunt Janet said seriously that anything was out of the question it meant that she was thinking about it , and would probably end up by doing it . If a thing really was out of the question she merely laughed and refused to discuss it at all . The particular matter in or out of the question that opening day of August was a project which Uncle Edward had recently mooted . Uncle Edward 's youngest daughter was to be married ; and Uncle Edward had written over , urging Uncle Alec , Aunt Janet and Aunt Olivia to go down to Halifax for the wedding and spend a week there . Uncle Alec and Aunt Olivia were eager to go ; but Aunt Janet at first declared it was impossible . `` How could we go away and leave the place to the mercy of all those young ones ? '' she demanded . `` We 'd come home and find them all sick , and the house burned down . '' `` Not a bit of fear of it , '' scoffed Uncle Roger .
`` XXXXX is as good a housekeeper as you are ; and I shall be here to look after them all , and keep them from burning the house down .
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