`` I wish you would call me Anne , '' exclaimed Anne impulsively . `` It would seem more HOMEY . Everyone in Four Winds , except my husband , calls me Mrs. Blythe , and it makes me feel like a stranger . Do you know that your name is very near being the one I yearned after when I was a child . I hated ` Anne ' and I called myself ` Cordelia ' in imagination . '' `` I like Anne . It was my mother 's name . Old-fashioned names are the best and sweetest in my opinion . If you 're going to get tea you might send the young doctor to talk to me . He 's been lying on the sofa in that office ever since I came , laughing fit to kill over what I 've been saying . '' `` How did you know ? '' cried Anne , too aghast at this instance of Miss Cornelia 's uncanny prescience to make a polite denial . `` I saw him sitting beside you when I came up the lane , and I know men 's tricks , '' retorted Miss Cornelia . `` There , I 've finished my little dress , dearie , and the eighth baby can come as soon as it pleases . '' CHAPTER 9 AN EVENING AT FOUR WINDS POINT It was late September when Anne and Gilbert were able to pay Four Winds light their promised visit . They had often planned to go , but something always occurred to prevent them . Captain Jim had `` dropped in '' several times at the little house . `` I do n't stand on ceremony , Mistress Blythe , '' he told Anne . `` It 's a real pleasure to me to come here , and I 'm not going to deny myself jest because you have n't got down to see me . There ought n't to be no bargaining like that among the race that knows Joseph .
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