`` I felt that I was heaping coals of fire on Mrs. Barry 's head . And Diana and I had a lovely afternoon . Diana showed me a new fancy crochet stitch her aunt over at Carmody taught her . Not a soul in Avonlea knows it but us , and we pledged a solemn vow never to reveal it to anyone else . Diana gave me a beautiful card with a wreath of roses on it and a verse of poetry : `` If you love me as I love you Nothing but death can part us two . `` And that is true , Marilla . We 're going to ask Mr. Phillips to let us sit together in school again , and Gertie Pye can go with Minnie Andrews . We had an elegant tea . Mrs. Barry had the very best china set out , Marilla , just as if I was real company . I ca n't tell you what a thrill it gave me . Nobody ever used their very best china on my account before . And we had fruit cake and pound cake and doughnuts and two kinds of preserves , Marilla . And Mrs. Barry asked me if I took tea and said ` Pa , why do n't you pass the biscuits to Anne ? ' It must be lovely to be grown up , Marilla , when just being treated as if you were is so nice . '' `` I do n't know about that , '' said Marilla , with a brief sigh . `` Well , anyway , when I am grown up , '' said Anne decidedly , `` I 'm always going to talk to little girls as if they were too , and I 'll never laugh when they use big words . I know from sorrowful experience how that hurts one 's feelings . After tea Diana and I made taffy . The taffy was n't very good , I suppose because neither Diana nor I had ever made any before . Diana left me to stir it while she buttered the plates and I forgot and let it burn ; and then when we set it out on the platform to cool the cat walked over one plate and that had to be thrown away .
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