`` Everything is ready , Diana , except my cake which I 'm to make in the morning , and the baking-powder biscuits which Marilla will make just before teatime . I assure you , Diana , that Marilla and I have had a busy two days of it . It 's such a responsibility having a minister 's family to tea . I never went through such an experience before . You should just see our pantry . It 's a sight to behold . We 're going to have jellied chicken and cold tongue . We 're to have two kinds of jelly , red and yellow , and whipped cream and lemon pie , and cherry pie , and three kinds of cookies , and fruit cake , and Marilla 's famous yellow plum preserves that she keeps especially for ministers , and pound cake and layer cake , and biscuits as aforesaid ; and new bread and old both , in case the minister is dyspeptic and ca n't eat new . Mrs. Lynde says ministers are dyspeptic , but I do n't think Mr. Allan has been a minister long enough for it to have had a bad effect on him . I just grow cold when I think of my layer cake . Oh , Diana , what if it should n't be good ! I dreamed last night that I was chased all around by a fearful goblin with a big layer cake for a head . '' `` It 'll be good , all right , '' assured Diana , who was a very comfortable sort of friend . `` I 'm sure that piece of the one you made that we had for lunch in Idlewild two weeks ago was perfectly elegant . '' `` Yes ; but cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good , '' sighed Anne , setting a particularly well-balsamed twig afloat . `` However , I suppose I shall just have to trust to Providence and be careful to put in the flour . Oh , look , Diana , what a lovely rainbow ! Do you suppose the dryad will come out after we go away and take it for a scarf ? '' `` You know there is no such thing as a dryad , '' said Diana . Diana 's mother had found out about the Haunted Wood and had been decidedly angry over it .
As a result Diana had abstained from any further imitative flights of imagination and did not think it prudent to cultivate a spirit of belief even XXXXX harmless dryads .
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