Anne herself answered , lifting her head . `` Do n't be very frightened , Marilla . I was walking the ridgepole and I fell off . I expect I have sprained my ankle . But , Marilla , I might have broken my neck . Let us look on the bright side of things . '' `` I might have known you 'd go and do something of the sort when I let you go to that party , '' said Marilla , sharp and shrewish in her very relief . `` Bring her in here , Mr. Barry , and lay her on the sofa . Mercy me , the child has gone and fainted ! '' It was quite true . Overcome by the pain of her injury , Anne had one more of her wishes granted to her . She had fainted dead away . Matthew , hastily summoned from the harvest field , was straightway dispatched for the doctor , who in due time came , to discover that the injury was more serious than they had supposed . Anne 's ankle was broken . That night , when Marilla went up to the east gable , where a white-faced girl was lying , a plaintive voice greeted her from the bed . `` Are n't you very sorry for me , Marilla ? '' `` It was your own fault , '' said Marilla , twitching down the blind and lighting a lamp . `` And that is just why you should be sorry for me , '' said Anne , `` because the thought that it is all my own fault is what makes it so hard . If I could blame it on anybody I would feel so much better . But what would you have done , Marilla , if you had been dared to walk a ridgepole ? ''
`` I 'd have stayed XXXXX good firm ground and let them dare away .
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