`` It 's a very fine evening , '' said Diana , `` but oh , I have such news , Anne . Guess . You can have three guesses . '' `` Charlotte Gillis is going to be married in the church after all and Mrs. Allan wants us to decorate it , '' cried Anne . `` No . Charlotte 's beau wo n't agree to that , because nobody ever has been married in the church yet , and he thinks it would seem too much like a funeral . It 's too mean , because it would be such fun . Guess again . '' `` Jane 's mother is going to let her have a birthday party ? '' Diana shook her head , her black eyes dancing with merriment . `` I ca n't think what it can be , '' said Anne in despair , `` unless it 's that Moody Spurgeon MacPherson saw you home from prayer meeting last night . Did he ? '' `` I should think not , '' exclaimed Diana indignantly . `` I would n't be likely to boast of it if he did , the horrid creature ! I knew you could n't guess it . Mother had a letter from Aunt Josephine today , and Aunt Josephine wants you and me to go to town next Tuesday and stop with her for the Exhibition . There ! '' `` Oh , Diana , '' whispered Anne , finding it necessary to lean up against a maple tree for support , `` do you really mean it ? But I 'm afraid Marilla wo n't let me go . She will say that she ca n't encourage gadding about .
That was what she said last week when XXXXX invited me to go with them in their double-seated buggy to the American concert at the White Sands Hotel .
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