`` You and Diana walked home from school together and then stood down there in the snow for half an hour more , your tongues going the whole blessed time , clickety-clack . So I do n't think you 're very badly off to see her again . '' `` But she wants to see me , '' pleaded Anne . `` She has something very important to tell me . '' `` How do you know she has ? '' `` Because she just signaled to me from her window . We have arranged a way to signal with our candles and cardboard . We set the candle on the window sill and make flashes by passing the cardboard back and forth . So many flashes mean a certain thing . It was my idea , Marilla . '' `` I 'll warrant you it was , '' said Marilla emphatically . `` And the next thing you 'll be setting fire to the curtains with your signaling nonsense . '' `` Oh , we 're very careful , Marilla . And it 's so interesting . Two flashes mean , ` Are you there ? ' 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 XXXXX confine the discussion of Diana 's important communication within the limits of ten minutes .
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