Outside in the garden , which was full of mellow sunset light streaming through the dark old firs to the west of it , stood Anne and Diana , gazing bashfully at each other over a clump of gorgeous tiger lilies . The Barry garden was a bowery wilderness of flowers which would have delighted Anne 's heart at any time less fraught with destiny . It was encircled by huge old willows and tall firs , beneath which flourished flowers that loved the shade . Prim , right-angled paths neatly bordered with clamshells , intersected it like moist red ribbons and in the beds between old-fashioned flowers ran riot . There were rosy bleeding-hearts and great splendid crimson peonies ; white , fragrant narcissi and thorny , sweet Scotch roses ; pink and blue and white columbines and lilac-tinted Bouncing Bets ; clumps of southernwood and ribbon grass and mint ; purple Adam-and-Eve , daffodils , and masses of sweet clover white with its delicate , fragrant , feathery sprays ; scarlet lightning that shot its fiery lances over prim white musk-flowers ; a garden it was where sunshine lingered and bees hummed , and winds , beguiled into loitering , purred and rustled . `` Oh , Diana , '' said Anne at last , clasping her hands and speaking almost in a whisper , `` oh , do you think you can like me a little -- enough to be my bosom friend ? '' Diana laughed . Diana always laughed before she spoke . `` Why , I guess so , '' she said frankly . `` I 'm awfully glad you 've come to live at Green Gables . It will be jolly to have somebody to play with . There is n't any other girl who lives near enough to play with , and I 've no sisters big enough . '' `` Will you swear to be my friend forever and ever ? '' demanded Anne eagerly . Diana looked shocked . `` Why it 's dreadfully wicked to swear , '' she said rebukingly . `` Oh no , not my kind of swearing . There are two kinds , you know . '' `` I never heard of but one kind , '' said Diana doubtfully . `` There really is another .
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