I 'd far rather live here , even if Marilla is that long-tailed word when it comes to jam , 'cause YOU 'RE here , Anne . Say , Anne , wo n't you tell me a story ` fore I go to sleep ? I do n't want a fairy story . They 're all right for girls , I s ` pose , but I want something exciting ... lots of killing and shooting in it , and a house on fire , and i n'trusting things like that . '' Fortunately for Anne , Marilla called out at this moment from her room . `` Anne , Diana 's signaling at a great rate . You 'd better see what she wants . '' Anne ran to the east gable and saw flashes of light coming through the twilight from Diana 's window in groups of five , which meant , according to their old childish code , `` Come over at once for I have something important to reveal . '' Anne threw her white shawl over her head and hastened through the Haunted Wood and across Mr. Bell 's pasture corner to Orchard Slope . `` I 've good news for you , Anne , '' said Diana . `` Mother and I have just got home from Carmody , and I saw Mary Sentner from Spencer vale in Mr. Blair 's store . She says the old Copp girls on the Tory Road have a willow-ware platter and she thinks it 's exactly like the one we had at the supper . She says they 'll likely sell it , for Martha Copp has never been known to keep anything she COULD sell ; but if they wo n't there 's a platter at Wesley Keyson 's at Spencervale and she knows they 'd sell it , but she is n't sure it 's just the same kind as Aunt Josephine 's . '' `` I 'll go right over to Spencervale after it tomorrow , '' said Anne resolutely , `` and you must come with me . It will be such a weight off my mind , for I have to go to town day after tomorrow and how can I face your Aunt Josephine without a willow-ware platter ? It would be even worse than the time I had to confess about jumping on the spare room bed . '' Both girls laughed over the old memory ... concerning which , if any of my readers are ignorant and curious , I must refer them to Anne 's earlier history . The next afternoon the girls fared forth on their platter hunting expedition . It was ten miles to Spencervale and the day was not especially pleasant for traveling . It was very warm and windless , and the dust on the road was such as might have been expected after six weeks of dry weather .
`` Oh , I do wish it would rain soon , '' sighed XXXXX .
Anne Blair Carmody Copp Diana Josephine Keyson Marilla Road Spencervale