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 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 , XXXXX you 're not going .
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