Front cover. L. M. Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside. N.Y.: Stokes, 1921 (s0235b20).

"Rilla was the "Baby" of the Blythe family and was in a chronic state of indignation because nobody believed she was a grown up. She was so nearly fifteen that she called herself that, and she was quite as tall as Di and Nan; also, she was nearly as pretty as Susan believed her to be. She had great, dreamy, hazel eyes, a milky skin dappled with little golden freckles, and delicately arched eyebrows, giving her a demure, questioning look which made people, especially lads in their teens, want to answer it. Her hair was riplely, ruddily brown and a little dent in her upper lip looked as if some good fairy had pressed it in with her finger at Rilla's christening. Rilla, whose best friends could not deny her share of vanity, thought her face would do very well, but worried over her figure and wished her mother could be prevailed upon to let her wear longer dresses. She, who had been so plump and roly-poly in the Old Rainbow Valley days, was incredibly slim, now in the arms-and-legs period. Jem and Shirley harrowed her soul by calling her "Spider"."  

— L. M. Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside. NY: Stokes, 1921, p. 15.