`` Oh I like happy endings best . You 'd better let him marry her , '' said Diana , who , especially since her engagement to Fred , thought this was how every story should end . `` But you like to cry over stories ? '' `` Oh , yes , in the middle of them . But I like everything to come right at last . '' `` I must have one pathetic scene in it , '' said Anne thoughtfully . `` I might let ROBERT RAY be injured in an accident and have a death scene . '' `` No , you must n't kill BOBBY off , '' declared Diana , laughing . `` He belongs to me and I want him to live and flourish . Kill somebody else if you have to . '' For the next fortnight Anne writhed or reveled , according to mood , in her literary pursuits . Now she would be jubilant over a brilliant idea , now despairing because some contrary character would NOT behave properly . Diana could not understand this . `` MAKE them do as you want them to , '' she said . `` I ca n't , '' mourned Anne . `` Averil is such an unmanageable heroine . She WILL do and say things I never meant her to . Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again . '' Finally , however , the story was finished , and Anne read it to Diana in the seclusion of the porch gable . She had achieved her `` pathetic scene '' without sacrificing ROBERT RAY , and she kept a watchful eye on Diana as she read it .
Diana rose XXXXX the occasion and cried properly ; but , when the end came , she looked a little disappointed .
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