agreed Avery , with an impatient laugh . `` Randall will think just as much of you in drugget as in silk , '' said Janet , meaning to comfort . Again Avery laughed . `` That is true . Randall never notices what a woman has on . I like a man who does notice -- and tells me about it . I like a man who likes me better in silk than in drugget . I will wear this rosebud silk when I 'm married , and it will be supposed to last me the rest of my life and be worn on all state occasions , and in time become an heirloom like Aunt Matilda 's hideous blue satin . I want a new silk dress every month . '' Janet paid little attention to this kind of raving . Avery had always been more or less discontented . She would be contented enough after she was married . Nobody could be discontented who was Randall Burnley 's wife . Janet was sure of that . Janet liked picking apples ; Avery did not like it ; but Aunt Matilda had decreed that the red apples should be picked that afternoon , and Aunt Matilda 's word was law at the Sparhallow farm , even for wilful Avery . So they worked and talked as they worked -- of Avery 's wedding , which was to be as soon as Bruce Gordon should arrive from Scotland . `` I wonder what Bruce will be like , '' said Avery . `` It is eight years since he went home to Scotland . He was sixteen then -- he will be twenty-four now . He went away a boy -- he will come back a man . ''
`` I do n't remember much about him , '' XXXXX Janet .
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