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Anne immediately wanted to know who Cousin Roxy was , and Kit waxed eloquent on her favorite topic . `` She 's an angel in a gingham apron , we girls think , '' she concluded , `` and yet she can take off the gingham apron and stand up and address any kind of a meeting . I just ca n't tell you all that she 's been to us since we lived there . '' Early in the afternoon Rex returned , and they caught the 2:45 local up to Delphi . Kit could hardly keep from looking out of the car window all the time . Every now and then the rich blueness of the lake would flash through the trees in the distance , and to the westward there stretched long level vistas of prairie land , dipping ravines which unexpectedly led one into woodland ways . Gradually the bluffs heightened as they neared the Wisconsin line above Waukegan , and just beyond the state line , between the shore and the region of the small lakes , Oconomowoc and Delevan , they came suddenly upon Delphi .