CHAPTER XXVI. MISS CORNELIA GETS A NEW POINT OF VIEW

"Susan, after I'm dead I'm going to come back to earth every time
when the daffodils blow in this garden," said Anne rapturously.
"Nobody may see me, but I'll be here. If anybody is in the
garden at the time--I THINK I'll come on an evening just like
this, but it MIGHT be just at dawn--a lovely, pale-pinky spring
dawn--they'll just see the daffodils nodding wildly as if an
extra gust of wind had blown past them, but it will be _I_."

"Indeed, Mrs. Dr. dear, you will not be thinking of flaunting
worldly things like daffies after you are dead," said Susan.
"And I do NOT believe in ghosts, seen or unseen."

"Oh, Susan, I shall not be a ghost! That has such a horrible
sound. I shall just be ME. And I shall run around in the
twilight, whether it is morn or eve, and see all the spots I
love. Do you remember how badly I felt when I left our little
House of Dreams, Susan? I thought I could never love Ingleside
so well. But I do. I love every inch of the ground and every
stick and stone on it."

"I am rather fond of the place myself," said Susan, who would
have died if she had been removed from it, "but we must not set
our affections too much on earthly things, Mrs. Dr. dear. There
are such things as fires and earthquakes. We should always be
prepared. The Tom MacAllisters over-harbour were burned out
three nights ago. Some say Tom MacAllister set the house on fire
himself to get the insurance. That may or may not be. But I