Of course he had forgotten -- if there was ever anything to forget -- a handclasp -- a kiss -- a look -- a promise asked under the influence of a passing emotion . It was all absurd -- she had been a silly , romantic , inexperienced goose . Well , she would be wiser in the future -- very wise -- and very discreet -- and very contemptuous of men and their ways . `` I suppose I 'd better go with Una and take up Household Science too , '' she thought , as she stood by her window and looked down through a delicate emerald tangle of young vines on Rainbow Valley , lying in a wonderful lilac light of sunset . There did not seem anything very attractive just then about Household Science , but , with a whole new world waiting to be built , a girl must do something . The door bell rang , Rilla turned reluctantly stairwards . She must answer it -- there was no one else in the house ; but she hated the idea of callers just then . She went downstairs slowly , and opened the front door . A man in khaki was standing on the steps -- a tall fellow , with dark eyes and hair , and a narrow white scar running across his brown cheek . Rilla stared at him foolishly for a moment . Who was it ? She ought to know him -- there was certainly something very familiar about him -- `` Rilla-my-Rilla , '' he said . `` Ken , '' gasped Rilla . Of course , it was Ken -- but he looked so much older -- he was so much changed -- that scar -- the lines about his eyes and lips -- her thoughts went whirling helplessly . Ken took the uncertain hand she held out , and looked at her . The slim Rilla of four years ago had rounded out into symmetry . He had left a school girl , and he found a woman -- a woman with wonderful eyes and a dented lip , and rose-bloom cheek -- a woman altogether beautiful and desirable -- the woman of his dreams . `` Is it Rilla-my-Rilla ? '' he asked , meaningly . Emotion shook Rilla from head to foot .
Joy -- happiness -- sorrow -- fear -- every passion that had wrung her heart in those four long years seemed to surge up in her soul for a XXXXX as the deeps of being were stirred .
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