Three mean ` yes ' and four ` no . ' Five mean , ` Come over as soon as possible , because I have something important to reveal . ' Diana has just signaled five flashes , and I 'm really suffering to know what it is . '' `` Well , you need n't suffer any longer , '' said Marilla sarcastically . `` You can go , but you 're to be back here in just ten minutes , remember that . '' Anne did remember it and was back in the stipulated time , although probably no mortal will ever know just what it cost her to confine the discussion of Diana 's important communication within the limits of ten minutes . But at least she had made good use of them . `` Oh , Marilla , what do you think ? You know tomorrow is Diana 's birthday . Well , her mother told her she could ask me to go home with her from school and stay all night with her . And her cousins are coming over from Newbridge in a big pung sleigh to go to the Debating Club concert at the hall tomorrow night . And they are going to take Diana and me to the concert -- if you 'll let me go , that is . You will , wo n't you , Marilla ? Oh , I feel so excited . '' `` You can calm down then , because you 're not going . You 're better at home in your own bed , and as for that club concert , it 's all nonsense , and little girls should not be allowed to go out to such places at all . '' `` I 'm sure the Debating Club is a most respectable affair , '' pleaded Anne . `` I 'm not saying it is n't . But you 're not going to begin gadding about to concerts and staying out all hours of the night . Pretty doings for children .
I 'm surprised XXXXX Mrs. Barry 's letting Diana go . ''
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