Her love made her afraid of being unduly indulgent , indeed . She had an uneasy feeling that it was rather sinful to set one 's heart so intensely on any human creature as she had set hers on Anne , and perhaps she performed a sort of unconscious penance for this by being stricter and more critical than if the girl had been less dear to her . Certainly Anne herself had no idea how Marilla loved her . She sometimes thought wistfully that Marilla was very hard to please and distinctly lacking in sympathy and understanding . But she always checked the thought reproachfully , remembering what she owed to Marilla . `` Anne , '' said Marilla abruptly , `` Miss Stacy was here this afternoon when you were out with Diana . '' Anne came back from her other world with a start and a sigh . `` Was she ? Oh , I 'm so sorry I was n't in . Why did n't you call me , Marilla ? Diana and I were only over in the Haunted Wood . It 's lovely in the woods now . All the little wood things -- the ferns and the satin leaves and the crackerberries -- have gone to sleep , just as if somebody had tucked them away until spring under a blanket of leaves . I think it was a little gray fairy with a rainbow scarf that came tiptoeing along the last moonlight night and did it . Diana would n't say much about that , though . Diana has never forgotten the scolding her mother gave her about imagining ghosts into the Haunted Wood . It had a very bad effect on Diana 's imagination . It blighted it . Mrs. Lynde says Myrtle Bell is a blighted being . I asked Ruby Gillis why Myrtle was blighted , and Ruby said she guessed it was because her young man had gone back on her .
Ruby XXXXX thinks of nothing but young men , and the older she gets the worse she is .
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