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_ No ! _ '' Lois got up slowly and struggled to find her slipper . `` I am not , '' she said slowly but distinctly . Mrs. Banks was delighted to accept Mrs. Farwell 's invitation , and at four o'clock they arrived , she and Maud . The girls could hardly restrain a gasp of surprise at the sight of Maud . It is hard to realize that other girls grow up as well as yourself , and Polly and Lois still remembered the shy little girl in a pinafore , with straight flaxen hair and blue eyes that Maud had been two summers before . They were totally unprepared to meet the new Maud .