`` And that is true , Marilla . We 're going to ask Mr. Phillips to let us sit together in school again , and Gertie Pye can go with Minnie Andrews . We had an elegant tea . Mrs. Barry had the very best china set out , Marilla , just as if I was real company . I ca n't tell you what a thrill it gave me . Nobody ever used their very best china on my account before . And we had fruit cake and pound cake and doughnuts and two kinds of preserves , Marilla . And Mrs. Barry asked me if I took tea and said ` Pa , why do n't you pass the biscuits to Anne ? ' It must be lovely to be grown up , Marilla , when just being treated as if you were is so nice . '' `` I do n't know about that , '' said Marilla , with a brief sigh . `` Well , anyway , when I am grown up , '' said Anne decidedly , `` I 'm always going to talk to little girls as if they were too , and I 'll never laugh when they use big words . I know from sorrowful experience how that hurts one 's feelings . After tea Diana and I made taffy . The taffy was n't very good , I suppose because neither Diana nor I had ever made any before . Diana left me to stir it while she buttered the plates and I forgot and let it burn ; and then when we set it out on the platform to cool the cat walked over one plate and that had to be thrown away . But the making of it was splendid fun . Then when I came home Mrs. Barry asked me to come over as often as I could and Diana stood at the window and threw kisses to me all the way down to Lover 's Lane . I assure you , Marilla , that I feel like praying tonight and I 'm going to think out a special brand-new prayer in honor of the occasion . '' CHAPTER XIX . A Concert a Catastrophe and a Confession `` MARILLA , can I go over to see Diana just for a minute ? ''
asked Anne , running breathlessly down XXXXX the east gable one February evening .
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