And -- I do n't really know if I 'm doing right -- it may make you more addlepated than ever -- but you can ask Diana to come over and spend the afternoon with you and have tea here . '' `` Oh , Marilla ! '' Anne clasped her hands . `` How perfectly lovely ! You ARE able to imagine things after all or else you 'd never have understood how I 've longed for that very thing . It will seem so nice and grown-uppish . No fear of my forgetting to put the tea to draw when I have company . Oh , Marilla , can I use the rosebud spray tea set ? '' `` No , indeed ! The rosebud tea set ! Well , what next ? You know I never use that except for the minister or the Aids . You 'll put down the old brown tea set . But you can open the little yellow crock of cherry preserves . It 's time it was being used anyhow -- I believe it 's beginning to work . And you can cut some fruit cake and have some of the cookies and snaps . '' `` I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea , '' said Anne , shutting her eyes ecstatically . `` And asking Diana if she takes sugar ! I know she does n't but of course I 'll ask her just as if I did n't know . And then pressing her to take another piece of fruit cake and another helping of preserves .
Oh , XXXXX , it 's a wonderful sensation just to think of it .
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