Minstrel robins were whistling in the firs and the frogs were singing in the marshes . All the basins among the hills were brimmed with topaz and emerald light . `` Well , we have had a lovely time after all , '' said Diana , as if she had hardly expected to have it when she set out . `` It has been a truly golden day , '' said Priscilla . `` I 'm really awfully fond of the woods myself , '' said Jane . Anne said nothing . She was looking afar into the western sky and thinking of little Hester Gray . XIV A Danger Averted Anne , walking home from the post office one Friday evening , was joined by Mrs. Lynde , who was as usual cumbered with all the cares of church and state . `` I 've just been down to Timothy Cotton 's to see if I could get Alice Louise to help me for a few days , '' she said . `` I had her last week , for , though she 's too slow to stop quick , she 's better than nobody . But she 's sick and ca n't come . Timothy 's sitting there , too , coughing and complaining . He 's been dying for ten years and he 'll go on dying for ten years more . That kind ca n't even die and have done with it ... they ca n't stick to anything , even to being sick , long enough to finish it . They 're a terrible shiftless family and what is to become of them I do n't know , but perhaps Providence does . '' Mrs. Lynde sighed as if she rather doubted the extent of Providential knowledge on the subject . `` Marilla was in about her eyes again Tuesday , was n't she ? What did the specialist think of them ? '' she continued . `` He was much pleased , '' said Anne brightly .
`` He says there is a great improvement in them and he thinks the danger XXXXX her losing her sight completely is past .
among by from in into of than though to with