"Look--in white letters, around the archway over the gate.

'Patty's Place.' Isn't that killing?
Especially on this Avenue of Pinehursts and Elmwolds and Cedarcrofts?
'Patty's Place,' if you please! I adore it." "Have you any idea who Patty is ?" asked Priscilla.
"Patty Spofford is the name of the old lady who owns it, I've discovered.

She lives there with her niece, and they've lived there for hundreds of years, more or less--maybe a little less, Anne.

Exaggeration is merely a flight of poetic fancy.

I understand that wealthy folk have tried to buy the lot time and again--it's really worth a small fortune now, you know--but 'Patty' won't sell upon any consideration.
And there's an apple orchard behind the house in place of a back yard--you'll see it when we get a little past--a real apple orchard on Spofford Avenue!" "I'm going to dream about 'Patty's Place' tonight," said Anne.