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MISS CORNELIA'S NEW VIEW 275home before.She and Ellen could never bear to beparted. But I understand Ellen insisted on her goingthis time. And meanwhile Ellen and Norman Douglasare warming up the old soup.""Is that really so ?" asked Anne, laughing."I hearda rumour of it, but I hardly believed it.""Believe it! You may believe it all right, Annedearie. Nobody is in ignorance of it. Norman Douglasnever left anybodyin doubt as to his intentionsin regard to anything. He always did his courtingbefore the public. He told Marshall that he hadn'tthought about Ellen for years,but the first time hewent to church last fall he saw her and fell in lovewith her all over again. He said he'd clean forgot howhandsome she was. He hadn't seen her for twentycan believe it. Of course he never wentyears, if youto church, and Ellen never went anywhere elsehere.roundOh, we all know what Norman means, but whatEllen means is a different matter.I shan't take ituponme to predict whether it will be a match or not.""He jilted her once but it seems that does notcount with some people, Mrs. Dr. dear," Susan remarkedrather acidly."He jilted her in a fit of temper and repentedit allhis life," said Miss Cornelia. "That is different froma cold-blooded jilting. For my part, I never detestedNorman as some folks do. He could never over-crowme.II do wonder what started him coming to church.have never been able to believe Mrs. Wilson's story