`` Minnie May asked me the other day if we would wear our best dresses every day in heaven , '' laughed Diana . `` And did n't you tell her we would ? '' asked Anne . `` Mercy , no ! I told her we would n't be thinking of dresses at all there . '' `` Oh , I think we will ... a LITTLE , '' said Anne earnestly . `` There 'll be plenty of time in all eternity for it without neglecting more important things . I believe we 'll all wear beautiful dresses ... or I suppose RAIMENT would be a more suitable way of speaking . I shall want to wear pink for a few centuries at first ... it would take me that long to get tired of it , I feel sure . I do love pink so and I can never wear it in THIS world . '' Past the spruces the lane dipped down into a sunny little open where a log bridge spanned a brook ; and then came the glory of a sunlit beechwood where the air was like transparent golden wine , and the leaves fresh and green , and the wood floor a mosaic of tremulous sunshine . Then more wild cherries , and a little valley of lissome firs , and then a hill so steep that the girls lost their breath climbing it ; but when they reached the top and came out into the open the prettiest surprise of all awaited them . Beyond were the `` back fields '' of the farms that ran out to the upper Carmody road . Just before them , hemmed in by beeches and firs but open to the south , was a little corner and in it a garden ... or what had once been a garden . A tumbledown stone dyke , overgrown with mosses and grass , surrounded it . Along the eastern side ran a row of garden cherry trees , white as a snowdrift . There were traces of old paths still and a double line of rosebushes through the middle ; but all the rest of the space was a sheet of yellow and white narcissi , in their airiest , most lavish , wind-swayed bloom above the lush green grasses . `` Oh , how perfectly lovely ! '' three of the girls cried . Anne only gazed in eloquent silence .
`` How in the world does it happen XXXXX there ever was a garden back here ? ''
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