Chapter 33: XXXIII

XXXIII “He Just Kept Coming and Coming” Three days later Anne came home from school and found Janet crying. Tears and Janet seemed so incongruous that Anne was honestly alarmed. “Oh, what is the matter?” she cried anxiously. “I’m—I’m forty today,” sobbed Janet. “Well, you were nearly that yesterday and it didn’t hurt,” comforted Anne, trying not to smile. “But—but,” went on Janet with a big gulp, “John Douglas won’t ask me to marry him.” “Oh, but he will,” said Anne lamel…