Do you ever try anything for the freckles?
I used to find plantain juice real good." "You certainly should be a judge of freckles, Cousin Sophia," said Susan, rushing to Rilla's defence.

"You were more speckled than any toad when you was a girl.

Rilla's only come in summer but yours stayed put, season in and season out; and you had not a ground colour like hers behind them neither.

You look real nice, Rilla, and that way of fixing your hair is becoming.

But you are not going to walk to the harbour in those slippers, are you ?" "Oh, no.