You 'll just let me out for the afternoon , wo n't you ? Then I 'll stay here as long as you like AFTERWARDS cheerfully . But I MUST go to the picnic . '' `` You 'll not go to picnics nor anywhere else until you 've confessed , Anne . '' `` Oh , Marilla , '' gasped Anne . But Marilla had gone out and shut the door . Wednesday morning dawned as bright and fair as if expressly made to order for the picnic . Birds sang around Green Gables ; the Madonna lilies in the garden sent out whiffs of perfume that entered in on viewless winds at every door and window , and wandered through halls and rooms like spirits of benediction . The birches in the hollow waved joyful hands as if watching for Anne 's usual morning greeting from the east gable . But Anne was not at her window . When Marilla took her breakfast up to her she found the child sitting primly on her bed , pale and resolute , with tight-shut lips and gleaming eyes . `` Marilla , I 'm ready to confess . '' `` Ah ! '' Marilla laid down her tray . Once again her method had succeeded ; but her success was very bitter to her . `` Let me hear what you have to say then , Anne . '' `` I took the amethyst brooch , '' said Anne , as if repeating a lesson she had learned . `` I took it just as you said . I did n't mean to take it when I went in . But it did look so beautiful , Marilla , when I pinned it on my breast that I was overcome by an irresistible temptation .
I imagined how perfectly thrilling it would be XXXXX take it to Idlewild and play I was the Lady Cordelia Fitzgerald .
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