`` I suppose I should n't have told him that , although I heard a minister say it to a child once . But he did aggravate me so . It was that night you were at the Carmody concert and I was putting him to bed . He said he did n't see the good of praying until he got big enough to be of some importance to God . Anne , I do not know what we are going to do with that child . I never saw his beat . I 'm feeling clean discouraged . '' `` Oh , do n't say that , Marilla . Remember how bad I was when I came here . '' `` Anne , you never were bad ... NEVER . I see that now , when I 've learned what real badness is . You were always getting into terrible scrapes , I 'll admit , but your motive was always good . Davy is just bad from sheer love of it . '' `` Oh , no , I do n't think it is real badness with him either , '' pleaded Anne . `` It 's just mischief . And it is rather quiet for him here , you know . He has no other boys to play with and his mind has to have something to occupy it . Dora is so prim and proper she is no good for a boy 's playmate . I really think it would be better to let them go to school , Marilla . '' `` No , '' said Marilla resolutely , `` my father always said that no child should be cooped up in the four walls of a school until it was seven years old , and Mr. Allan says the same thing .
The twins can have a few lessons XXXXX home but go to school they sha n't till they 're seven . ''
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